Libreoffice and Webdav behind HAProxy

Stéphane Guillou stephane.guillou at libreoffice.org
Thu Mar 30 11:53:52 UTC 2023


On 17/3/23 16:51, Jean-Max Reymond wrote:
> Le 17/03/2023 à 09:28, Jean-Max Reymond a écrit :
>> Hi,
>> I have a very strange behavior with LibreOffice and Webdav
>>
>> I have a tomcat server under Ubuntu 22.04 that presents documents 
>> with the Webdav protocol.
>>
>> If my tomcat server is behind apache2, I can open and save a document 
>> with LibreOffice on Ubuntu 22.04 and MS Office on Mac.
>>
>> If my tomcat server is behind HAProxy, I can open a document with 
>> LibreOffice under Ubuntu 22.04 and MS Office on Mac but I can't save 
>> it with Ubuntu 22.04 while it's OK with MS Office on Mac
>>
>> The message is "Error while saving the template-CRA2 document: 
>> impossible to create the object in the directory 
>> https://cloud.exemple.com/WebDav/NESTOR/jmax" translated from french" 
>> "Erreur lors de l'enregistrement du document template-CRA2: 
>> impossible de créer l'objet dans le répertoire 
>> https://cloud.exemple.com/WebDav/NESTOR/jmax"
>>
>> I have traces in the tomcat servlet but I didn't notice an error 
>> code, all PROPFIND return 20x.
>>
>> I have checked that all Webdav directories on the server have write 
>> permissions.
>>
>> How do I know what is causing the Webdav error in Libreoffice?
>>
>> Thanks for your tips,
>
> I can reproduce with
>  sudo mount -t davfs https://cloud1.exemple.com/WebDav/NESTOR/GERARD 
> /mnt/webdav
>
> and open a document with libreoffice in /mnt/webdav.
> Open the document is OK but save failed with this message
>
> Error while saving document template-CRA2
> The object is not accessible
> Impossible to access the object
> because the user rights are insufficient.
>
> It is ok with gedit, the text editor of my Ubuntu distribution.
>
>
Hi Jean-Max

Can you please test a recent master build, or 7.5.2 that was just 
released, or the upcoming 7.4.7?

A couple of webDAV / curl fixes were made it in these versions.

See reports:

  * https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154224
  * https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152493
  * https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=154223

Thank you!

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