[WAGON-583] WebDavWagon and tests do not adhere to RFC 4918

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 3.3.4
• Component/s: wagon-webdav
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Michael Osipov
• Created: 18/Mar/20 20:40
• Updated: 24/Dec/23 20:14

Description

While working on release 3.4.0 I have noticed several issues (non-exhaustive) with the WebDavWagon:

• On a PUT request 409 is ignored when parent collections do not exist.
• Redirects on MKCOL are competely ignored because not the relocation is not passed to mkdirs(), but the original path.
• Status code management from MKCOL are incomplete.
• Most tests treat WebDAV like HTTP which is wrong. MKCOL requests are answered with 404.

They are likely many other issues I did not discover or already forgot. A serious amount of time needs to be invested to make this Wagon decently compatible with real world servers and along with real world tests.

Therefore, I propose following options:

• Bring this on par with the regular HttpWagon
• Deprecate in 3.x and remove in 4.0.0
• Mark it especially as unmaintained (abandoned) from 3.x