- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 11:52:54 +0200
- To: Werner Baumann <werner.baumann@onlinehome.de>
- CC: Adrien de Croy <adrien@qbik.com>, Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>, Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>, ietf-http-wg@w3.org
Werner Baumann wrote: > Am Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:46:02 +0200 > schrieb Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>: > >> Many HTTP servers that are also WebDAV servers will store the mime >> type as separate meta data, and will also allow clients to specify it >> when doing a PUT. >> > Do you know servers that really get this right? At least one (SAP KM), but I'm quite sure this is also true for others, such as Apache Jackrabbit or Xythos WFS. > I am asking because I once tried to implement setting MIME-type in > davfs2 (using PROPPATCH). I did my first tests with > Apache/mod_dav/mod_dav_fs and IIS and then immediately stopped work on > this. What I got is: > PROPFIND returned the MIME-type as set by davfs2 > GET and HEAD returned another MIME-type, the one derived from the file > extension. Well, that's a bug. No matter what it returns, it should be consistent. It may be a good idea to open a bug wrt to Apache/mod_dav then. BR, Julian
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