How do I establish a WebDAV connection in Gnome 3?

Question

In Nautilus from Gnome 3, the Connect to Server dialog is missing the Type field.

How can I establish a WebDAV connection?

Solution 1

In the Server Address field type the following:

davs://[email protected]/path

The user@ and path parts are of course optional, so, if needed, you can just type:

davs://host.name/

If you need, you may provide a password as well:

davs://user:[email protected]/path

Solution 2

If someone is getting the error "SSL Handshake Failed", then exclude the "s" from davs since we are not using SSL i.e.

dav://user@hostname:port/path

This took me a while to figure out so hopefully this helps some people out there :).

Comments

[Marc]

I'm embarrassed to say how long I've been fighting with this, only to find I was missing that trailing slash after host.name. Thanks.

[mjaggard]

The help for this in Nautilus is also not helpful because it says to use http:// or https:// for WebDAV

[jjmerelo]

I'm using ubuntu 12.04, and this simply does not seem to work. It's returning 403: FORBIDDEN all the time.

[Andrea Corbellini]

@jjmerelo: you might need to authenticate. By the way, please note that 12.04 was released more than 6 years ago and it's EOL now

[Scott P.]

Keep getting "HTTP Error: Unauthorized" on 19.04 even though my username and password are provided.