WebDAV: LibreOffice does not handle vnd.sun.star.webdav protocol out-of-the-box

[Jonathan Pasquier]

Libreoffice is able to open documents located on a WebDAV server if provided with an URL starting with the vnd.sun.star.webdav protocol.
(for instance: vnd.sun.star.webdav://example.com/webdav/my-document.odt )

Unfortunately, after installing Libreoffice on Ubuntu these URL aren't still handled correctly.
Whether you click on a link in your browser or you try to open the URL from the command line with xdg-open vnd.sun.star.webdav://... you get a message saying that this protocol is unknown.

What I expected was that LibreOffice would start and would open the document.

A workaround is to create a Desktop file with the following informations:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=WebDav LibreOffice
Exec=/usr/bin/libreoffice %u
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=System;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/vnd.sun.star.webdav;

and then to copy it in /usr/share/applications
Afterwards you have to run sudo update-desktop-database so that Ubuntu will take the new protocol into account.

A more definitive solution would be to modify the libreoffice-base Desktop file that comes with libreoffice (also located in /usr/share/applications) to add the MimeType properties described above.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: libreoffice 1:4.0.2-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-23.34-generic 3.8.11
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-23-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Jun 2 11:51:56 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-05-12 (20 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-GNOME 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release i386 (20130424)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: libreoffice
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Jonathan Pasquier (jonathan-pasquier)]

Libreoffice is able to open documents located on a WebDAV server if provided with an URL starting with the vnd.sun.star.webdav protocol.
(for instance: vnd.sun.star.webdav://example.com/webdav/my-document.odt )

Unfortunately, after installing Libreoffice on Ubuntu these URL aren't still handled correctly.

Whether you click on a link in your browser or you try to open the URL from the command line with xdg-open vnd.sun.star.webdav://... you get a message saying that this protocol is unknown.

What I expected was that LibreOffice would start and would open the document.

A workaround is to create a Desktop file with the following informations:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=WebDav LibreOffice
Exec=/usr/bin/libreoffice %u
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Categories=System;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/vnd.sun.star.webdav;

and then to copy it in /usr/share/applications
Afterwards you have to run sudo update-desktop-database so that Ubuntu will take the new protocol into account.

A more definitive solution would be to modify the libreoffice-base Desktop file that comes with libreoffice (also located in /usr/share/applications) to add the MimeType properties described above.

Note: I have also filled a bug report in Ubuntu's launchpad, but the comment in the desktop file state that it is part of the LibreOffice project. As I'm not sure which project is able to fix this bug, I've open a bug report on both bugtrackers. Sorry for the mess!
Launchpad bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1186702
Operating System: Ubuntu
Version: 4.0.2.2 release

[Jonathan Pasquier (jonathan-pasquier)]

I have also filled a bug report in LibreOffice bug tracker as the comment in the desktop file state that it is part of the LibreOffice project. As I'm not sure which project is able to fix this bug, I've open a bug report on both bugtrackers. Sorry for the mess!
LibreOffice bug report: https://www.libreoffice.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65261

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

is this issue still reproducible with current LibO 4.2.5.2 release?

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

It would be nice to have the bug retested on a newer LibO version (4.3.2.2 is out) than the version reported in the original report to know that the bug is still present -- sometimes a bug is inadvertently fixed over time and just never
closed.

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[Iplaw67 (iplaw67)]

Adding self to CC if not already on

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

please retest with LibO 4.3.6.2 or 4.4.1.2 and give update of the bug status

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Jonathan, can you please retest?

[Jonathan Pasquier (jonathan-pasquier)]

Hi,

I have retested today on Ubuntu Gnome 15.04 with LO 4.4.2.2 and it's still
not working.
I had a quick look at the .desktop files in /usr/share/applications that
comes with LO and I saw that x-scheme-handler/vnd.sun.star.webdav does not
appear in the MimeType section.

2015-07-25 18:41 GMT+02:00 Rolf Leggewie <email address hidden>:

> Jonathan, can you please retest?
>
> ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
> ** Changed in: libreoffice (Ubuntu)
> Assignee: (unassigned) => Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
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[Libreoffice-4 (libreoffice-4)]

Thank you for reporting this issue, Jonathan and thank you for retesting against 4.4.2.2 as documented in https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1186702/comments/9 (issue is still unresolved as per that comment)

[Giuseppe-castagno (giuseppe-castagno)]

Retest with:

- LO Version: 5.0.0.5, Build ID: 437e4abdf9e72fd0a6e6f8697a0e659bc77f9b10, TDF distribution;
- on a Linux X86_64 machine;
- on local Apache2 WebDAV server
(vnd.sun.star.webdav://192.168.1.40/webdav/Lorem_ipsum.odt)
- OS is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS;

the protocol vnd.sun.star.webdav worked.

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

@Giuseppe
so could we mark this as RESOLVED?

@Rolf
can you confirm it works using LibO 5.0.0.5?

[Giuseppe-castagno (giuseppe-castagno)]

(In reply to tommy27 from comment #7)
> @Giuseppe
> so could we mark this as RESOLVED?

I've just checked on Windows 7 32bit, LO 5.0.0.5,
LO build id: 1b1a90865e348b492231e1c451437d7a15bb262b, works as well.

I think this can be marked as RESOLVED.

Users can of course reopen it if they think it's the case.

[Barta-c (barta-c)]

ok RESOLVED WORKSFORME

feel free to REOPEN if other users still see this bug in LibO 5.0.0

[Vladislav-kuzma (vladislav-kuzma)]

Linux Ubuntu: 16.04
LibreOffice: 5.1.4.2

After installing LibreOffice url links with protocol vnd.sun.star.webdav aren't bound to LibreOffice.
After appending libreoffice-startcenter.desktop file property MimeType with x-scheme-handler/vnd.sun.star.webdav, it starts opening url links correctly with LibreOffice.

[Ilmari-lauhakangas (ilmari-lauhakangas)]

Correcting status to NEW.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

marking as fixed as per upstream BTS for xenial and beyond

[jlord87 (moro-87)]

I'm on Ubuntu 16.10 with latest libreoffice from official repository and I'm still dealing with this bug.

Or being honest, to a similar one (?) because I'm dealing with the handler

vnd.sun.star.webdavs

that i believe is due to the secured protocol used.

Adding the handler according to this bug report solved my problem:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=65261

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Dear Jonathan Pasquier,

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There have been thousands of bug fixes and commits since anyone checked on this bug report. During that time, it's possible that the bug has been fixed, or the details of the problem have changed. We'd really appreciate your help in getting confirmation that the bug is still present.

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If the bug is NOT present, please set the bug's Status field to RESOLVED-WORKSFORME and leave a comment that includes the information from Help - About LibreOffice.

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[Mikekaganski (mikekaganski)]

Our home-grown non-standard vnd.sun.star.webdav(s) schemes should be dropped in favor of the office URI schemes supported since 5.3 [1], hence this should be supposedly closed WONTFIX.

[1] https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/5.3#Office_URI_Schemes_support

[Samuel-mehrbrodt-6 (samuel-mehrbrodt-6)]

This has been fixed with 1bc454a2c0cb0dd69512d69ddd2123a44814197e .