Bug 330250

Summary: Support preemptive authentication
Product: [Frameworks and Libraries] frameworks-kio Reporter: Dennis Schridde <heri+kde>
Component: generalAssignee: KIO Bugs <kio-bugs-null>
Status: CONFIRMED ---    
Severity: wishlist CC: christoph.ruessler, greg, kapsh, kdelibs-bugs-null, martin.ruessler, martin, me
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: unspecified   
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OS: Linux   
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Description Dennis Schridde 2014-01-21 14:21:04 UTC 
It would be great if Akonadi/DAV would support preemptive authentication, as that will speed up syncs with the WebDAV server.

RFC 2617 Section 2: A client MAY preemptively send the corresponding Authorization header with requests for resources in that space without receipt of another challenge from the server.

Several other WebDAV clients (e.g. Android CardDAV-Sync, CalDAV-Sync, DAVdroid) and Apache's HTTP client library support this.
Comment 1 Christoph Rüßler 2014-08-11 15:25:16 UTC 
It would be great if this issue could be addressed as the log file of my owncloud installation is full of messages regarding missing authentication headers.
Comment 2 Grégory Oestreicher 2016-02-06 23:41:35 UTC 
Looks more like a job for KIO http module. I can't find an option to enable this.