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?

Screenshot of the dialog

Hi. Could you please tell us what version of Ubuntu you are using and maybe provide a screenshot of the Connect to Server dialog? This would greatly help us figuring out what's going on. Thanks! — Andrea Corbellini, Dec 27 '12 at 14:28
Hi Andrea,I am using version 12.10, how do I upload an image? — John Brines, Dec 27 '12 at 14:49
To upload the image, see http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/75491/how-to-upload-an-image-to-a-post — Andrea Corbellini, Dec 27 '12 at 14:52
Try this http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/211/screenshotfrom201212271.png/ — John Brines, Dec 27 '12 at 15:13
I suppose you are using Gnome Shell, or the Nautilus that come from Gnome 3, because the default Nautilus in Ubuntu 12.10 does not have that dialog. Can you confirm? (If you're unsure, please paste the output of apt-cache policy nautilus) — Andrea Corbellini, Dec 27 '12 at 15:39

Andrea Corbellini · Answer 1 · 2014-09-13T06:43:35.230

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In the Server Address field type the following:

davs://user@host.name/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:password@host.name/path

edited Sep 13 '14 at 06:43

answered Dec 28 '12 at 13:09

Andrea Corbellini

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Thanks for your answer. Such a stupid UI which does not even give a hint which URLs are supported. Used to be much better with the combo box for selection in Gnome 2. – eudoxos Jul 08 '13 at 07:17
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. – Marc Jul 15 '14 at 02:08
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The help for this in Nautilus is also not helpful because it says to use http:// or https:// for WebDAV – mjaggard Aug 27 '15 at 08:01
I'm using ubuntu 12.04, and this simply does not seem to work. It's returning 403: FORBIDDEN all the time. – jjmerelo Dec 26 '18 at 17:38
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@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 – Andrea Corbellini Dec 26 '18 at 22:32
Keep getting "HTTP Error: Unauthorized" on 19.04 even though my username and password are provided. – Scott P. Mar 27 '19 at 21:57

score 8 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 20 '15 at 17:06

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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 :).

answered Jul 20 '15 at 17:06

NahsiN

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