Look into how strictly get* properties must match GET headers

[jwodder]

RFC 4918 implies that the get* properties (i.e., getcontentlanguage, getcontentlength, getcontenttype, getetag, and getlastmodified) are meant to correpond to GET response headers. Does this mean that the properties' values must match what would be returned by a GET request to the corresponding resource? If so, dandidav's current behavior violates this in the following ways:

• dandidav sets the getcontenttype of blob assets to their encodingFormat metadata field, yet GETing a blob's download URL results in a response from S3 with a Content-Type of binary/octet-stream (or text/plain for some of the JSON metadata files).

• dandidav sets the getlastmodified of blob assets to the assets' modified properties, yet GETing a blob results in an S3 response that seems to use the blobDateModified date as "Last-Modified". (cf. Use blobDateModified metadata instead of modified property for blob assets' "modified" timestamps #17)

• dandidav sets the getcontentlength of Dandiset versions to the total size of all assets in the version, but GETing a version via the WebDAV server will result in an HTML page listing its top-level contents, which usually won't be of the same size.

  • What exactly should the getcontentlength for collections be set to? Moreover, what about getcontenttype for collections?