Last modified timestamp not preserved in Windows

I can’t find any other comments on this, so I have to assume it’s unique to my setup or it’s by design and I missed it in the documentation somewhere.

I’m using Windows 10 with Python 3.6.5, wsgidav 2.4.0. When I run wsgidav --host=0.0.0.0 --port=8080 --root=c:\users\my_user :

I can connect to the share without problems, view and download files without problems. But when I upload a file to the webdav share (I use drag-drop), it gets a new timestamp of “now”. Strangely the new file initially shows its original timestamp, but a refresh (F5) will show the new “now” timestamp.

Is this by design? It’s hard for me to believe that it is because it makes any sort of file sync impossible.

NB: I also see this same behavior in SeaFile, which uses the wsgidav library.

Edit: I also tried using a config file and setting mutable_live_props = ["{DAV:}getlastmodified"] which didn’t help. So I’m guessing this it’s the client not setting “lastmodified” after the upload?

[mar10]

I think we can could add it to the standard, since M$ is a common-enough WebDAV client. We should make it configurable, e.g. by an support_win32_properties option. A PR for 3.x would be great.

[mar10]

Merged it, thanks!

I had to make temp patches to other parts of the code in order to test v3.0.0a. I guess you’re not quite finished refactoring. I left those untouched; if you want some pointers I can tell you or submit another PR.

Yes I this was a lot of renaming and PyCharm refactoring probably did not all references right. That’s why I consider it alpha for now. If you could send your changes as PR that would certainly help.