Re: ucp WebDAV provider returns Content-Type header value, but...

I can’t answer this question, but I can publicly thank you for the fix - it’s resolved a nasty 
issue with importing external data from a website!

Great work :-) Thanks so much for diagnosing and committing a fix Giuseppe. 

Chris

On 1 Feb 2016, at 9:31 PM, Giuseppe Castagno <giuseppe.castagno@acca-esse.eu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> These commits:
>
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=e973b342826e54f147251b132c3325d30749e312>
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/gitweb?p=core.git;a=commitdiff;h=d61352f58a7f750d3b0b0a9c2d6498fbb7a6e10d>
>
> fixed a problem preventing MediaType from getting the value of Content-Type header form a Web 
> resource.
>
> Following two Gerrit patch set propose the same for 5.1 branch.
>
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21987/1>
> <https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/21988/1>
>
> I'd like to preserve the sequence so I cherry-picked (-x) them externally, not sure I did the 
> right thing.
>
> Checked them, fix tdf#95217 in 5.1 as well.
>
> With both patch applied the value contained in MediaType prop is now not empty, but being a value 
> under a web server control, it may not be right.
>
> This excerpt from <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231#section-3.1.1.5> tells you that:
> "
> ...
> In practice, resource owners do not always properly configure their
> origin server to provide the correct Content-Type for a given
> representation,....
> "
>
> Furthermore, in some WebDAV read/only server, I found that 'Content-type' header and 
> 'DAV:getcontenttype' values are different, instead of being the same as stated in section 15.5 of 
> RFC4918
> <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-15>
>
> As an example accessing the hybrid web site resource:
> <http://unladen-swallow.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/LICENSE>
>
> LO gets, using GET:
>
> Content-Type: text/plain
>
> while PROFIND:
>
> DAV:getcontenttype:text/xml; charset="utf-8"
>
> In this case (a WebDAV site) MediaType prop returns DAV:getcontenttype value.
>
> -- 
> Kind Regards,
> Giuseppe Castagno aka beppec56
> Acca Esse http://www.acca-esse.eu
> giuseppe.castagno at acca-esse.eu
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