I'm trying to learn how to use WebDAV with Perl. My main use-case is simply downloading several files and folders (I think the term is collections in DAV??). I'm using App::DAVThis to stand up a simple test server, and I'm trying to learn how to use HTTP::DAV but I'm having some issues getting it to work. I was hoping that after I got it working with dav_this (the name of the executable script), then I can move on to a production server that supports https.

I keep getting errors regarding Bad Requests. Does anyone know if I'm using the module correctly? The frustrating thing is that I can use cadaver to connect to the temp server and it works just fine.

Test Code 

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;

use HTTP::DAV;
my $url = "http://localhost:4242/";

my $dav = HTTP::DAV->new;
$dav->open(-url=>$url) or die $dav->message;
$dav->get(-url=>"/", -to=>".");

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Error message 

Server response: Could not access http://localhost:4242/: Bad Request 
+at davtest.pl line 14.

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In reply to Problems learning WebDAV with dav_this and HTTP::DAV by skleblan

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