RE: [dav-dev] Problem with OfficeXP and Accented characters

Does somebody have a specific proposal what language should appear in
2518bis for this issue?  I haven't dealt with it even though it's so old
because I'm having trouble figuring out what to say!

lisa

> -----Original Message-----
> From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Julian Reschke
> Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 2:38 AM
> To: Greg Stein
> Cc: Peter Gillis; dav-dev@lyra.org; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org; 
> I20568n@mindshare.intraspect.com
> Subject: RE: [dav-dev] Problem with OfficeXP and Accented characters
> 
> 
> Greg,
> 
> what you describe is a scenario where
> 
> - the server preserves whatever octet sequence was used in a URL
> - the clients are consistent in what they send/expect
> 
> However, thinks are more complicated.
> 
> - In moddav (correct me if I'm wrong), people may be creating 
> resources by directly accessing the filesystem. If, for 
> instance, I create a filename containing "A umlaut", and the 
> filesystem's filename encoding is ISO-8859-1, I'll have the 
> octet %c4 in the name. Returning %c4 in the PROPFIND response 
> in the general case will not work (because the client doesn't 
> know about URL character encodings, so it must use what the 
> RFCs say, and that is UTF-8).
> 
> - Broken clients may use request/destination URIs which are 
> not encoded in UTF-8 (this may apply to older versions of 
> Microsoft clients). So you basically have the choice of 
> failing the request if the octet stream doesn't UTF-8-decode, 
> or you can try to workaround the problem by making 
> assumptions about what the encoding in the request may have been.
> 
> As this issue is coming up every few weeks and as almost 
> every server / client I've seen in the last few months has 
> some bug in this regard, it should certainly clarified in the 
> RFC2518 revision.
> 
> Julian
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org 
> > [mailto:w3c-dist-auth-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Greg Stein
> > Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 3:53 AM
> > To: Julian Reschke
> > Cc: Peter Gillis; dav-dev@lyra.org; w3c-dist-auth@w3.org; 
> > I20568n@mindshare.intraspect.com
> > Subject: Re: [dav-dev] Problem with OfficeXP and Accented characters
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Feb 13, 2002 at 09:31:37PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote:
> > >...
> > > > From: dav-dev-admin@lyra.org
> > [mailto:dav-dev-admin@lyra.org]On Behalf Of
> > > > Peter Gillis
> > > > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2002 8:46 PM
> > >...
> > > > I am having a problem with Microsoft Web Folders after the
> > client installs
> > > > Office XP on their machine and file names with accented 
> characters 
> > > > are involved.  Our server has been working in the past with 
> > > > earlier implementations of Web Folders without a 
> problem, however,
> > when the client
> > > > machine is upgraded to Office XP, a document that was 
> accessible 
> > > > previously is now not found.  I have tracked the 
> problem down to 
> > > > the
> > fact that Web
> > > > Folders is encoding the URI value a second time before 
> sending the 
> > > > request, which then causes it not to be found on our 
> server.  For 
> > > > example:
> > > >
> > > > In the folder listing we send back the following property:
> > > >
> > > > <href>/dav/webdav/%E8%E2temp%C9.xls</href>
> > >
> > > Isn't this wrong in the first place? My understanding is that you 
> > > should send URL-encoded UTF-8.
> >
> > Nope.
> >
> > The filename is in an "original character set". That is 
> then encoded 
> > into octets for the URL. That transformation is not specified 
> > anywhere. Ideally, it is "original -> UTF-8", but nobody 
> says it must 
> > be. In fact, I would say
> > it should match whatever encoding was used for the Request-URI
> > (but that is
> > not specified/defined in the request, so you're out of luck again).
> >
> > Once you have octets, then you perform the URL-escaping 
> (using '%xx').
> >
> > After that, you need to transform the URL into the character set of 
> > the response body. That is usually UTF-8, but it is 
> possible to have 
> > the XML in a different character set (provided it is 
> specified on the 
> > Content-Type response header).
> >
> > Finally, you must XML-escape the UTF-8 characters of the URL you're 
> > inserting (e.g. translate '&' to '&amp;') so that you can embed the 
> > UTF-8 content into the XML response.
> >
> >
> > A long time ago, I captured this as a start of a technical FAQ. See:
> >     http://www.webdav.org/other/techfaq.html
> >
> > Specifically, the second section.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > -g
> >
> > --
> > Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
> >
>

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