webdavs files not acccessible to POSIX apps

[Stephen Parry]

Mounting webdavs share via GVFS (in my case using gigolo), remote file system should be accessible via gvfs-fuse at /run/user/<username>/gvfs/. Instead just get input/output errors when listing and reading files.
Steps to reproduce:
Use gigolo to connect to remote DAVS file storage using Actions -> Connect, Actions-> Open
Check connectivity via gvfs:

gvfs-ls davs://<email address hidden>/somepath
gvfs-cat davs://<email address hidden>/somepath/somefile.txt

In my case, these work fine. Now try:

ls -l /run/user/localuser/gvfs/dav\:host\=www.somesite.com\,ssl\=true\,user\=remoteuser/somepath
cat /run/user/localuser/gvfs/dav\:host\=www.somesite.com\,ssl\=true\,user\=remoteuser/somepath/somefile.txt

Get these errors:

ls: cannot access /run/user/parrysg/gvfs/dav:host=www.mainscreen.com,ssl=true,user=parry2sg/files/test.txt: Input/output error
:
:
cat: /run/user/parrysg/gvfs/dav:host=www.mainscreen.com,ssl=true,user=parry2sg/files/test.txt: Input/output error

This affects 13.04 but works fine under 12.04

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: gvfs-fuse 1.16.1-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.8.0-27.19-lowlatency 3.8.13.4
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-27-lowlatency i686
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon Aug 26 10:41:58 2013
InstallationDate: Installed on 2012-07-05 (416 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu-Studio 12.04 "Precise Pangolin" - Release i386 (20120423)
MarkForUpload: True
SourcePackage: gvfs
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-05-11 (107 days ago)

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug to the developers of the software by following the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME. If you have done so, please tell us the number of the upstream bug (or the link), so we can add a bugwatch that will inform us about its status. Thanks in advance.

[Stephen Parry (sgparry)]

Posted upstream:
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=706798

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks!

[Stephen Parry (sgparry)]

A proposed patch is now available upstream on the gnome bug report. Could we try this patch please?