ucp WebDAV provider returns Content-Type header value, but...

[Chris Sherlock]

I can’t answer this question, but I can publicly thank you for the fix - it’s resolved a nasty issue with importing external data from a website!

Great work :-) Thanks so much for diagnosing and committing a fix Giuseppe. 

Chris

On 1 Feb 2016, at 9:31 PM, Giuseppe Castagno <giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> These commits:
> 
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=e973b342826e54f147251b132c3325d30749e312>
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=d61352f58a7f750d3b0b0a9c2d6498fbb7a6e10d>
> 
> fixed a problem preventing MediaType from getting the value of Content-Type header form a Web resource.
> 
> Following two Gerrit patch set propose the same for 5.1 branch.
> 
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21987/1>
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21988/1>
> 
> I'd like to preserve the sequence so I cherry-picked (-x) them externally, not sure I did the right thing.
> 
> Checked them, fix tdf#95217 in 5.1 as well.
> 
> With both patch applied the value contained in MediaType prop is now not empty, but being a value under a web server control, it may not be right.
> 
> This excerpt from <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.1.5> tells you that:
> "
> ...
> In practice, resource owners do not always properly configure their
> origin server to provide the correct Content-Type for a given
> representation,....
> "
> 
> Furthermore, in some WebDAV read/only server, I found that 'Content-type' header and 'DAV:getcontenttype' values are different, instead of being the same as stated in section 15.5 of RFC4918
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-15>
> 
> As an example accessing the hybrid web site resource:
> <http://unladen-swallow.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/LICENSE>
> 
> LO gets, using GET:
> 
> Content-Type: text/plain
> 
> while PROFIND:
> 
> DAV:getcontenttype:text/xml; charset="utf-8"
> 
> In this case (a WebDAV site) MediaType prop returns DAV:getcontenttype value.
> 
> -- 
> Kind Regards,
> Giuseppe Castagno aka beppec56
> Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
> giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
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