Error: HTTP 404 not found with WebDav Data Destinations

• Symptoms
• Conditions
• Resoluton

Issue Symptoms

An error message is returned from the client's WebDav server while uploading a form submission. Clicking on more details for the data record failure in the ProntoForms portal will show the following details:

Failure Details Response Status Line : 
HTTP / 1.1 404 Not Found 
Apache / 2.2.15(Red Hat)
nosniff close noopen no - cache none GMT Sameorigin max - age = 15768000 none no - store, 
no - cache, must - revalidate, post - check = 0, pre - check = 0 default - src 'none'; 
cookie_test = test; expires = Mon, 24 - Oct - 2016 14: 22 : 47 GMT Thu, 19 Nov 
1981 08 : 52 : 00 GMT 1; mode = block 526 PHP / 5.4.45 application / xml; charset = utf - 8 Response Body : < ? xml version = "1.0" encoding = "utf-8" ? > < d : error xmlns : d = "DAV:" xmlns : s = "http://domain_name" > < s : exception > Domain\ DAV \ Exception \ NotFound < / s : exception > < s : message > 
File with name folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5/andsoforth could not be located 
< / s : message > < / d : error >

Conditions

This can occur when a very long filepath (i.e. folder and or filename) is defined which exceeds the target WebDav server's character limit.

Resolution

Update your WebDav data destination to reduce either the filename (check the DREL expression) or the folder names along the filepath.

Visit the ProntoForms Documentation Portal to find out more about the WebDav Data Destination.