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#535 WebDAV is not fully functional with Nautilus / Gnome document viewer on Ubuntu 22.04.
With prior versions I was able to copy documents from and to WebDAV and was able to open documents using double click on a file in Nautilus to view it with an asigned application. Since Ubuntu 22.04 it's not possible to open documents anymore, I can copy them to my local disc and open then, but not directly from WebDAV.
Other WebDAV integrations like my Nextcloud Hub don't have this issue.
I have no idea how to debug this issue and fix it myself, but since this upgrade, the combination of my OS with SeedDMS isn't useful anymore :(
Can you check if davs://demo6.seeddms.org/webdav/index.php works. It uses the latest (still unpublished) version of seeddms.
I tried nautilus 42.2 on debian sid, which appears to be working fine.
pictures, documents and presentations work, most pdfs don't
1989-jaarverslag.pdf to 1997-jaarverslag.pdf do work
every other pdf cannot be opened directly via double click, but can be opened after copying to a local drive.
Tested with evince, LibreDraw, Inkscape.
Next thing which confuses any more ... if I drag those non working pdfs into Chrome, it shows me the document ...
It looks like it depends on the application you are using to view the document. When I drop a file on chrome it tries to open a path starting with 'davs://' The same path is passed to other applications and some of them can handle it, while others either quit immediately or show an empty file. On my system both thunar and nautilus show this behaviour, zathura is able to open pdf files, but inkscape or mupdf can't. Have a look at the webdav log files in data/log. It may give you some idea of what is going on. Copying a file onto the local disc works because that is done by the file manager itself.
I personally use davfs and have a line like
https://demo6.seeddms.org/webdav/index.php /media/webdav/demo6-dms/dms davfs noauto,user,rw,uid=1000,gid=1000in
/etc/fstab(you need to adapt it to your needs)hmm, it works using davfs, but it doesn't using fusefs within Nautilus.