Make WebDav available for public/password-protected shared links

[zeus86]

Correct me if i'm wrong, but as it seems to me WebDav only sems to work for oldfashioned folders, shared by or to a user, but not "userless" shares like if you share a folder or file by a link.

wouldn't it be nice to be able to access "public" shares by webdav/webdavs also? i'd really appreciate this, because i would have need for this. working around that would be a hassle indeed.

... using NC 11 right now.

[zeus86]

maybe with something like user:<hashed_part_of_the_url> and pass:<pass_of_the_share> or something like that.

[Schmuuu]

Hi zeus86,

afaik your right, it doesn't work yet. So you should rather post a pull request instead of an issue ;)

While I fear such a feature will not come, one good solution for you might be the guest app:
https://github.com/nextcloud/guests
There you have an account (guest) and hence it should be possible to access the accounts' data via webdav.
Unfortunately the guest app is not released yet, but might come soon.

[zeus86]

afaik your right, it doesn't work yet. So you should rather post a pull request instead of an issue ;)

yeah, but unfortunately i'm an admin (and mostly a betatester obviously) rather than a dev, so i won't be capapble of fixing this unfortunately, but a mod could flag this thread as " feature request" then.

[loelkes]

https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/12/user_manual/files/access_webdav.html

Docs for NC12 says it's possible.

This works for me:
curl -k -T {} -u "shareid:" -H 'X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest' https://cloud.foobar.de/public.php/webdav/{}

Mounting the share via the OSX 10.13.1 "Connect to Server" says "There was a problem...". Tested with and without password protected share, share is read/write enabled.

[zeus86]

@loelkes uhm, i will definately test this out, thanks for the advice.

[Govikk]

@loelkes It works very well for me.

However there is a small problem. According to given link the only way to pass share id is an user name. It is not convenient in some cases. It would be much better if share id was passed via URL.

Eg. I want NC to host eclipse plugin site. There could be more than one plugin site on server and they could not be distinguished as all of them has the same URL.

[landryb]

The documentation says it should work, when browsing the public share in a web browser i can see the web ui doing a PROPFIND /public.php/webdav/ with a basic auth header (supposedly constructed with the share name and the share password ?) and getting a 207 code, the xml returned correctly list the files..

so it should work, but trying to browse https://url/public.php/webdav/ via cadaver or gvfs (and authenticated with the share name as dav username, and the share password as dav password) only returns 401 codes on the PROPFIND /remote.php/webdav/ request, same thing with curl, sabredav returns unauthenticated

$curl -X PROPFIND -u LK5KdDpJR9kWZk4 https://xxxx/public.php/webdav/         
Enter host password for user 'LK5KdDpJR9kWZk4':
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<d:error xmlns:d="DAV:" xmlns:s="http://sabredav.org/ns">
  <s:exception>Sabre\DAV\Exception\NotAuthenticated</s:exception>
  <s:message/>
</d:error>

[landryb]

Ok, it only works if you toggle outgoing_server2server_share_enabled in files_sharing config to true, as https://docs.nextcloud.com/server/14/user_manual/files/access_webdav.html#accessing-public-shares-over-webdav specifies (the 12 doc didnt precise it...)