id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	uname	nginx_version
1966	MKCOL refuses creation without trailing slash	chrysn		"Some WebDAV clients that create collections do that without including the trailing slash. The logs offer no further explanation, and to a casual user the 409 error is confusing (as it indicates that the parent collection is absent).

RFC4918 recommends them to have a trailing slash, but given that several applications don't send a trailing slash, it stands to reason that it's common for servers to accept it. Section 5.2 even gives concrete guidance that in such a case, the server should accept and send a Content-Location header (""There is a standing convention"").

Example clients that don't are webdav-js (https://github.com/dom111/webdav-js) and Stratospherix FileBrowser for Business; some examples are around for other clients that employ workarounds (eg. https://github.com/laurent22/joplin/issues/523)."	defect	closed	minor		nginx-module	1.16.x	duplicate	webdav	chrysn	Linux poseidon-sid 4.19.0-0.bpo.8-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.19.98-1~bpo9+1 (2020-03-09) x86_64 GNU/Linux	"nginx version: nginx/1.16.1
built with OpenSSL 1.1.1d  10 Sep 2019 (running with OpenSSL 1.1.1g  21 Apr 2020)
TLS SNI support enabled
configure arguments: --with-cc-opt='-g -O2 -fdebug-prefix-map=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1=. -fstack-protector-strong -Wformat -Werror=format-security -fPIC -Wdate-time -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2' --with-ld-opt='-Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-z,now -fPIC' --prefix=/usr/share/nginx --conf-path=/etc/nginx/nginx.conf --http-log-path=/var/log/nginx/access.log --error-log-path=/var/log/nginx/error.log --lock-path=/var/lock/nginx.lock --pid-path=/run/nginx.pid --modules-path=/usr/lib/nginx/modules --http-client-body-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/body --http-fastcgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/fastcgi --http-proxy-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/proxy --http-scgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/scgi --http-uwsgi-temp-path=/var/lib/nginx/uwsgi --with-debug --with-pcre-jit --with-http_ssl_module --with-http_stub_status_module --with-http_realip_module --with-http_auth_request_module --with-http_v2_module --with-http_dav_module --with-http_slice_module --with-threads --with-http_addition_module --with-http_flv_module --with-http_geoip_module=dynamic --with-http_gunzip_module --with-http_gzip_static_module --with-http_image_filter_module=dynamic --with-http_mp4_module --with-http_perl_module=dynamic --with-http_random_index_module --with-http_secure_link_module --with-http_sub_module --with-http_xslt_module=dynamic --with-mail=dynamic --with-mail_ssl_module --with-stream=dynamic --with-stream_ssl_module --with-stream_ssl_preread_module --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-headers-more-filter --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-auth-pam --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-cache-purge --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-dav-ext --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-ndk --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-echo --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-fancyindex --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/nchan --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-lua --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/rtmp --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-uploadprogress --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-upstream-fair --add-dynamic-module=/build/nginx-RdAWlx/nginx-1.16.1/debian/modules/http-subs-filter"