WebDAV and Briefcase

Russianspi · Post by **Russianspi** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 7:43 pm

Hello. I've heard that you can mount briefcase shares in WebDAV, for example, KevinH said so in a comment on the blog. If this is the case, then how does one go about mounting it via WebDAV? I've used both Windows' and Ubuntu's native implementations, and get errors every time I try to mount the share. Could someone please give a simple step-by-step to do this? Assume I'm quite stupid; you won't offend me, I promise

. It would make my life much easier, and I could quit using my W2K3 server as a file server.

14319KevinH · Post by **14319KevinH** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 10:36 am

The base URL for WebDav into your mailbox is:

This">https://SERVER/service/dav/USER
This will prompt you for your username/password to authenticate. It will give you back a list of folders including briefcase and then some *special* folders. Like 'attachments' which will let you browse your entire mailbox's attachments by date, sender or type (image, audio, etc) See the screenshot below for examples. Please be aware this it not very optimized so some larger folders may timeout or take a long time to view. Also if you drag and drop a large number of files from your desktop it may take sometime for that to transfer as we index each one as they are added.
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Russianspi · Post by **Russianspi** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 11:36 am

Cool. I was hoping that you would answer this; I almost sent you a PM, but I figured that everyone could benefit from having this question answered. I think I've almost got it. Tell me if I've got the syntax right. I'm trying to log in like this (assuming that mail.myzimbraserver.com and dan@myzimbraserver.com are my server and E-mail address, respectively):
I'm">http://mail.myzimbraserver.com/service/ ... server.com
I'm not using https (Should I be?) and I'm assuming that the word service in your example was not intended to be a variable. When I get prompted for a username and password, I enter dan@myzimbraserver.com as the username, and also enter my password. It doesn't work. What am I missing?

14319KevinH · Post by **14319KevinH** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:02 pm

Try just
http://mail.myzimbraserver.com/service/dav/dan

Russianspi · Post by **Russianspi** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:29 pm

Ah-ha! I tried a few alternate clients, but when I try to open the folder in Firefox, I get a good, real error message. It seems that my first try at a login was correct, but that there was a server error that I wasn't seeing. It happens when I just leave off a username (just /dav/), and when I put my full user name in the URL. (If I just try "dan" I get a 404). In either of these situations, I get a "500" Error, with lots of detail from my web browser. The code is as follows:

HTTP ERROR: 500
INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR
RequestURI=/service/dav

Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.zimbra.cs.dav.DavContext.(DavContext.java:70)

at com.zimbra.cs.dav.service.DavServlet.service(DavServlet.java:112)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:487)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1093)

at org.mortbay.servlet.UserAgentFilter.doFilter(UserAgentFilter.java:81)

at org.mortbay.servlet.GzipFilter.doFilter(GzipFilter.java:132)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler$CachedChain.doFilter(ServletHandler.java:1084)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:360)

at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:216)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:181)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:712)

at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:405)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:211)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:176)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:139)

at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:313)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:506)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.headerComplete(HttpConnection.java:830)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:514)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:211)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:381)

at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:396)

at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:442)
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Is this a bug? I'm running 5.0 Beta 3

14319KevinH · Post by **14319KevinH** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:43 pm

Do you have more than one domain? If so you'll need the full email address and may need to urlencode the @ sign. The exception stack trace below is a bug as we should better check the inputs and give a better error message.

Russianspi · Post by **Russianspi** » Fri Aug 31, 2007 12:51 pm

I do have more than one domain - I have the one at mail.myzimbraserver.com and I have myzimbraserver.com . I can't log into Zimbra by using "dan"; I have to use dan@myzimbraserver.com. How do I URLencode my username?

Russianspi · Post by **Russianspi** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:35 pm

Just seeing if there is an answer for this...

14319KevinH · Post by **14319KevinH** » Wed Sep 05, 2007 8:04 pm

It's %40 for @ sign so like this:

https://SERVER/service/dav/USER%40DOMAIN

1739miguel · Post by **1739miguel** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:41 pm

I can't access via "windows explorer" or konqueror (it stands loading and nothing is shown), but it works well with 'cadaver' client..