File names are percent-encoded when connect to webdav server

[Tom Yang]

When I connected to a Webdav server set up by nginx using the default file manager, some non-English characters in file and folder names are displayed as percent-encoded(url-encoded). For example, "%E4%B8%8D%E5%AE%89%E4%B8%8E%E6%AC%B2%E6%9C%9B" is displayed instead of "不安与欲望", and the " "(space) in a file name is displayed as "%20". Once I copied those files to local disk, the file names are displayed correctly.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. What Ubuntu/nautilus version do you use?
Does "gio ls dav://:..." has the same issue or is it specific to nautilus?

[Tom Yang (wyh-aaron)]

I'm using nautilus 3.32 on Ubuntu 19.04. "gio list dav://..." works perfectly fine, so the issue is specific to nautilus. Please see the following screenshot.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank for the version info and the screenshot. It does indeed look like a nautilus bug there and it should be sent upstream to https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/ . Do you think you can do that or would you prefer us to handle that part?

[Tom Yang (wyh-aaron)]

I have already opened an issue there. Thank you!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

It would have been useful to mention it and share the reference, I went to look for it now
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/nautilus/issues/1024

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

The issue is an nginx one

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Upstream description https://trac.nginx.org/nginx/ticket/970

[Lucas Kanashiro (lucaskanashiro)]

This bug is marked by nginx maintainers as invalid and it seems that the issue is in the plugin:

https://github.com/arut/nginx-dav-ext-module/issues/44

Is this still reproducible in the latest Ubuntu release (23.10) where we have libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext version 1:3.0.0-4?

It seems that at the time this bug was reported this module was not packaged as a separate source package.

[Sergio Durigan Junior (sergiodj)]

Just confirming what Lucas said above: the issue seems to be with the plugin, not nginx.

According to https://github.com/arut/nginx-dav-ext-module/issues/44#issuecomment-670491952, the issue has been fixed (I haven't tested it to confirm). I also confirmed that the plugin we ship seems to have the proper fix (https://git.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext/tree/ngx_http_dav_ext_module.c?h=applied/ubuntu/devel#n1745).

I'm marking this bug as Invalid for nginx and adding libnginx-mod-http-dav-ext as Incomplete to reflect the fact that we need confirmation if the bug is still present or not.