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From: "Life is hard, and then you die." <ronald@innovation.ch>
Subject: Re: [dav-dev] Filenames with blanks
To: gstein@lyra.org (Greg Stein)
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 19:53:20 -0800 (PST)
Cc: Niels.Baggesen@uni-c.dk (Niels Baggesen), dav-dev@lyra.org,
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 "Greg Stein" at Feb 01, 2000 12:53:53 AM
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One day, Greg Stein wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Niels Baggesen wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have playing around with mod-dav for a while now, and it seems to
> > work fine in general.
> > 
> > One nuisance is when I right-klick in a web folder in Windows selects
> > new folder, and it tries to create a folder called "New Folder". It
> > consistently fails, with the following message in apaches errorlog:
> > 
> > [Mon Jan 31 22:52:48 2000] [error] [client 130.228.14.139] Digest: uri mismatch - </nba-n/New%20Folder> does not match request-uri </nba-n/New Folder>         
> > 
> > maybe indicating that some string is not properly uri-escape-decoded.
> 
> This is occurring in mod_auth_digest, as part of the digest
> authentication. (mod_dav handles spaces just fine)

Yup, this was a bug in mod_auth_digest alright.

> A temporary workaround
> would be to switch to basic auth -- less secure, but it should work
> better.

Or even better, get Apache 1.3.11 - the mod_auth_digest in there has
this fixed (or should, anyway).


  Cheers,

  Ronald