Recursive Infinite Copies No Longer Supported

You can no longer use the WevDAV copy command to generate a recursive infinite copy in a B2C Commerce instance. When you use the command to copy a file’s content into itself, the destination is excluded because it exists. Excluding the copy prevents a recursive infinite copy that fills the file system.

How: The WebDAV server differs in this case from the RFC 4918 protocol.

For example, attempting to execute a recursive copy of the following structure:

   folder/path/content 
   folder/path/content/c1 
   folder/path/content/c2
   
   cp folder/path/content --> folder/path/content/targetfolder
  

Results in:

   folder/path/content
   folder/path/content/c1
   folder/path/content/c2
   folder/path/content/targetfolder/c1
   folder/path/content/targetfolder/c2
  

In this example, targetfolder doesn’t exist in the destination folder because it would create a recursive case.