Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.6)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

When connecting using webdav to a remote folder, client issues a PROPFIND which give him list of files along with their "display name" and their "url". The later ones are properly encoded for server to handle them.

However, webdav client from kde disregard the provided url and badly decod the display name if it's utf-8 encoded.

Example:
A folder contains 1 document named "1mission-Mélanome malin-09-07-2007.pdf". The server send a response to folder propfind using utf-8 encoding (Content-Type: text/xml;charset=UTF-8 and <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>). The document entry is as follow:
<D:response xmlns:D="DAV:">

    <D:href>/intranet/DAV/files/00/missions_test/1mission-M%C3%A9lanome%20malin-09-07-2007.pdf</D:href>

    <D:propstat>

        <D:prop>

            <D:displayname>1mission-M..lanome malin-09-07-2007.pdf</D:displayname>

            <sniped a part. The display name contains a 2 byte character for é, as UTF-8 encodes it>
        </D:prop>

        <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>

    </D:propstat>

</D:response>

As a result:

1) the display name showed in konqueror is wrong (1mission-Mélanome malin-09-07-2007). It show the artefact of deconding UTF-8 french accent using ISO-8859 encoding. Bad!

2) when i click the link, webdav client tries to get document
/intranet/DAV/files/00/missions_test/1mission-M%C3%83%C2%A9lanome%20malin-09-07-2007.pdf

Which has nothing to do with the one provided in d:href. The server then naturally answer with 'HTTP 404'

The worse part is that webdav client does everything in ISO-8859 without any real reason to ignore what server tells it, but during discussion with server client always say it can understand "only utf-8":


GET /intranet/DAV/files/00/missions_test/1mission-M%C3%83%C2%A9lanome%20malin-09-07-2007.pdf HTTP/1.1

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.5; Linux) KHTML/3.5.6 (like Gecko) (Kubuntu)

Accept: application/pdf, */*;q=0.5

Accept-Charset: utf-8, utf-8;q=0.5, *;q=0.5

Accept-Language: fr, en

Host: localhost:8080

Cookie: JSESSIONID=1DDDE66D42771BEC7BA286607383287F

Connection: Keep-Alive



As a result, if server uses UTF-8 character encoding to support wide range of character, the kde webdav client can not accent documents that have caracters outside the US-ASCII set.

A correct behaviour would be to use the href provided by server, which should be understandable by the server that created it, instead of trying to build your own version. It's should be as following <a href=".."> in a webpage.


known workaround:
If you can afford it's installation, use nautilus to access non US DAV server :(