WebDAV Interoperability

Even the future of the WebDAV standard might be quite unclear it is still used be several hosters and cloud software stacks like ownCloud, SSP Data Space or GRAU DATA SPACE. Many clients have interoperability problems with some servers. Therefore I will test several clients with the new GDS2 and report about interoperability problems.

At first I checked the sever with the litmus interoperability suite. Here you see the results:

The GDS2 WebDAV implementation passed 12 of 16 test. Please let me know your experiences with your favourite WebDAV server. Current Windows clients (Win7) and MacOSX are reported to work without any problems.

I am a Linux user, so I will put my focus on Linux clients:

Nautilus

Nautilus (3.4.2 - gvfs 1.14) connects without any problem to the GDS2. There are obviously some problems with UTF-8 as the litmus test already told us:

Dolphin

Dolphin also connects without problems. It obviously has no problems with the UTF-8 implementation of GDS2 but it does not display the modification date of the files on the server:

Libre Office 4

The brand new libreoffce version 4 includes a webdav and a CMIS client implementation. Browsing the server worked as expected:

Storing an existing file works, creating a new one produces an error: