Problem with setWebdavProperties method

[Warwick Burrows <wa...@e2open.com>]

Hi,
 
I have a problem with Slide 2.1 M1 where I can create and delete a folder
called "$$" using the slide dav client but then can't put or cd into it. I
can even create subfolders under the $$ folder with the command line client
- just not cd or put into it. I can also access my $$ folder and its
subfolders from a web browser as the urls have been escaped correctly by the
slide server. The problem occurs because of a comparison made between the
escaped URL and the href element returned in the response body of a PROPFIND
method that's made while setting the new path in the WebdavResource with the
setPath() method. The href returned by the server is the URL path with an
escaped (and I would think correct) version of the string "$$" eg.
"/slide/files/%24%24" -- whereas the call to the HttpUrl.getEscapedPath()
made in setWebdavProperties() returns a path with "/slide/files/$$" in it. 
 
I tracked the problem back to where the target URI is first encoded by the
HttpClient.URI.setPath() method which doesn't escape the $ characters
because $ is considered one of the legal chars for the 'allowed_abs_path'
character set. Is this a bug in the HttpClient.URI implementation?
Shouldn't the "$" and ":" character be escaped like the (space) character
is?
 
Thanks,
Warwick
 
 

Re: Problem with setWebdavProperties method

[Ingo Brunberg <ib...@fiz-chemie.de>]

The URI class from Httpclient is correct. Slide, which is still using
a very old variant of Httpclient for the server part, incorrectly
escapes those characters.

One of the developers noted this inconsistency between client and
server versions not long ago. I guess someone really has to bring the
server part up to date and merge the org.apache.util packages into
one.

Ingo

> Hi,
>  
> I have a problem with Slide 2.1 M1 where I can create and delete a folder
> called "$$" using the slide dav client but then can't put or cd into it. I
> can even create subfolders under the $$ folder with the command line client
> - just not cd or put into it. I can also access my $$ folder and its
> subfolders from a web browser as the urls have been escaped correctly by the
> slide server. The problem occurs because of a comparison made between the
> escaped URL and the href element returned in the response body of a PROPFIND
> method that's made while setting the new path in the WebdavResource with the
> setPath() method. The href returned by the server is the URL path with an
> escaped (and I would think correct) version of the string "$$" eg.
> "/slide/files/%24%24" -- whereas the call to the HttpUrl.getEscapedPath()
> made in setWebdavProperties() returns a path with "/slide/files/$$" in it. 
>  
> I tracked the problem back to where the target URI is first encoded by the
> HttpClient.URI.setPath() method which doesn't escape the $ characters
> because $ is considered one of the legal chars for the 'allowed_abs_path'
> character set. Is this a bug in the HttpClient.URI implementation?
> Shouldn't the "$" and ":" character be escaped like the (space) character
> is?
>  
> Thanks,
> Warwick


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