Thanks for the quick reply... OK, your explanation makes sense ;-) How do I know which auth-method is used with my
webdav provider???

Thanks for helping!

On Fri, 16 Mar 2012, shiba doo wrote:

> I am trying to use the curl command line tool to uplad files to a WEBDAV 
> server. Unfortunately, the tool sends the files always twice. If I do a 
> regular copy/paste within WIndows XP, it does (of course) not do so. Thre 
> result is that curl needs double the time to upload the file. I have no idea 
> why curl show this behaviour. My string is:
> 
> curl --anyauth -u user:password -k -T filenmae 
https://webdav.someserver.com/pictures/ > progressbar.txt

That's because you ask for it. --anyauth will make it "try" the request 
without auth first, and being a PUT it then has to continue the full send and 
then it gets the 401 back and spots how to do the auth and then it does the 
correct PUT with the appropriate auth header.

You can easily avoid the double send by for example specifying the exact auth 
method on the command line.

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