Reading Hashes (MD5 or SHA1) via WebDAV

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Hi!

I’ve written a webdav integration with Owncloud for rclone and it works very well. However I haven’t added checksum support yet - I’d like a bit of guidance if possible.

I see that Owncloud appears to store the SHA1 hashes on the objects. For instance when I HEAD an object I see

OC-Checksum: SHA1:f572d396fae9206628714fb2ce00f72e94f2258f

I found some documentation for this: https://doc.owncloud.org/desktop/2.4/architecture.html#upload

Will this always be an SHA1? Or do I have to retrieve the server properties to check the supported values? rclone support SHA-1 and MD5 so either of those would be great, but I need to know at the start of a sync which are supported.

Is it possible to retrieve the SHA-1 as a webdav property? This would be most convenient then I could retrieve it in the listings rather than having to do a HEAD request to retrieve it off the object headers?

Thanks for any help and apologies if I’ve missed the bits in the docs.

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Hey, i have seen @PVince81, @DeepDiver1975 or @ilja answering to development specific questions here. Maybe they can give some background?

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You can query the “oc:checksum” property when doing a PROPFIND.

To know what checksums are supported, query the capabilities OCS endpoint and look at “checksums.supportedTypes”. From what I see SHA-1 is currently hard-coded there.(https://github.com/owncloud/core/blob/v10.0.8/apps/files/lib/Capabilities.php#L56)

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Thanks you, that is very helpful.

Is there a list of WebDAV properties somewhere in the docs? Google and I couldn’t find one!

I guess I can do an allprops query to see what is available

    <?xml version="1.0" ?>
    <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
            <D:allprop/>
    </D:propfind>

Would there be a lot of overhead for owncloud if I did that for every query?

Thank you very much for your help.

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I don’t think “allprop” will work, it will likely only report some of the common properties.

There is currently no exhaustive list of properties, we should add these in the documentation.

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Raised here to gather a list: https://github.com/owncloud/documentation/issues/4244

You could look at the Network console in the browser when the file list is doing a PROPFIND to see most of the existing customer properties related to files.

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OK, thanks.

Great,

I’ll also try grepping the source code and see what I find!