Hi,
you are right, the code was a mess since i was trying everything at once :).
initialising the dav with useragent fixed the problem.

my @ua_args = (keep_alive => 1);
my $ua = HTTP::DAV::UserAgent -> new (@ua_args);
my $dav = HTTP::DAV->new(-useragent => $ua) ;
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thanks a lot for the replies. Cheers, C