When doing a PROPFIND on a collection that has -w- or --- permissions for apache the result is a 207 MULTI STATUS reponse with Content-Length=0 and no content. It should return some content with 403 or 404 in <status> element. How to reproduce: 1. set up a web-dav server 2. make a web-dav collection with any namy 3. use chmod 000 on that collection 4. make PROPFIND request on this collection Actual results: 1. HTTP 207 MULTI STATUS response with no content Expected results: 1. HTTP 207 MULTI STATUS response with XML content describing and 404 or 403 error on this resource or 2. 403 or 404 HTTP response
This precise bug seems to be fixed in httpd 2.4.4 and in 2.5-dev (r1477094): the server returns 403 Forbidden for a PROPFIND on a collection whose directory it can't read. But a very similar problem still exists: if you do a PROPFIND on that collection's *parent*, with Depth: infinity (and DavDepthInfinity on in your config file), then you get an empty response --- no HTTP headers, status line, or content; the connection just drops. Apache does log this message though: [Mon Apr 29 17:43:34.153164 2013] [dav:error] [pid 57866] [client 127.0.0.1:58653] Provider encountered an error while streaming a multistatus PROPFIND response. [404, #0]
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