[Exist-open] incorrect file size via webdav (4096 B)

[tech.vronk <te...@vr...>]

Hi,

when connecting to an exist instance via webdav,
the file-size for xml-files is a factor of 4096.
So if the file is smaller than 4kB its file size is shown as 4096,
if it's in reality e.g. 6kB it is displayed with 8192, etc.
This seems to pertain only to xml-files.
I presume it has something to do with the size of the index-page..?


This is true for running the exist-instance both on a windows or linux 
machine. i have experienced this issue for some time now,
i.e. also in older versions of exist,
but it is present in the current 2.0 release  and (quite) current trunk 
as well.

I am on a windows machine and use oXygen and BitKinex for the 
webdav-access. Despite, the wrong file size, the access to the files 
worked ok.
However, now I also tried to map the webdav endpoint to a drive via 
Netdrive, but when I open the files on this mapped drive, i get junk at 
the end of the document. It seems that somewhere up the line the 4096 
bytes get filled with "something".
This obviously also makes file diffs impossible (which was my original 
motivation to map the webdav-endpoint to the drive).

Does anyone else  experience this / now more about this?

Thank you

Matej