Problem with WebDAV authentication and HTTP persistent connections

[Alexander Hartl]

I have a WebDAV share with (digest) authentication running on a lighttpd and try to connect to it using nautilus. My lighttpd closes the TCP connection after some seconds. Using WIreshark I've observed the following behaviour:

While the authentication dialog is shown gvfsd trys to keep the connection open and reuse it to send the next HTTP request containing the provided access credentials. However, if I'm too slow entering my password and the server closes the connection meanwhile, gvfsd responds to the FIN packet as it should as soon as I press Connect but it will never establish a new connection to send the next HTTP request. Instead gvfsd-dav continues running in background, nautilus shows the wait mouse cursor and 10 or 15 minutes later it complains about not having received a DBus response.

Observed in a fully updated Ubuntu Natty, version of gvfs-backends is 1.8.0-0ubuntu2.

[Mörgæs (moergaes)]

Closing as the bug concerns an obsolete Ubuntu release.
If a similar one appears in 13.10 please open a new report.