[Duplicity-talk] webDAV propfind request body

[Dan Muresan]

Going further with WebDAV, I found that some (well-known) DAV servers
return nothing when <allprop> is requested. This makes duplicity think
the archive is empty.

I believe servers returning nothing violate the spec, because <allprop>
is supposed to return all "dead properties" and at least some live
properties:

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4918.txt

But this is irrelevant for users... Cadaver issues a more explicit request:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<propfind xmlns="DAV:"><prop>
<getcontentlength xmlns="DAV:"/>
<getlastmodified xmlns="DAV:"/>
<executable xmlns="http://apache.org/dav/props/"/>
<resourcetype xmlns="DAV:"/>
<checked-in xmlns="DAV:"/>
<checked-out xmlns="DAV:"/>
</prop></propfind>

I tried this request in duplicity by modifying the variable "listbody"
in the WebDAV backend (backends.py), and voila, collection-status and
incremental suddenly start working on my DAV host.

Can the default request body be updated, please? Does anyone here have
experience with WebDAV + duplicity?


-- Dan