Re: sitecopy webdav doesn't recurse?
Joe Orton <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.web.sitecopy |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Thu, Mar 24, 2005 at 10:09:31AM +0100, Lars Eggert wrote:
> Joe Orton wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 06:08:25PM +0100, Lars Eggert wrote:
> >
> >>I'm trying to use sitecopy to mirror a large webdav server. However,
> >>sitecopy doesn't seem to recurse, it only downloads a single directory.
> >>It creates the subdirectories correctly, but doesn't download their
> >>contents.
> >
> > The WeBDAV request sitecopy uses ("depth infinity" PROPFIND) is defined
> > by the WebDAV RFC to recurse the entire tree; I wasn't aware of any
> > server which broke this rule, but apparently you have one which does -
> > can I ask, what is the server?
>
> This particular one is an apache 1.3.33.
Weird, I'm not sure what's going on then. What version of mod_dav? It
should work if you enable "DAVDepthInfinity On" in the httpd.conf, and
it should completely fail in the default configuration.
> However, note that the webdav install instructions explicitly recommend
> to _disable_ "depth infinity" propfinds! So I expect this to be rather
> common, and maybe a future version of sitecopy should reflect this; I'd
> be happy to help test :-)
Yes, but the thing is that 99% of sitecopy users should never have to
use fetch mode at all, so it doesn't really affect many people.
Regards,
joe
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