I think this is still happening at the redirector level, when the redirector is optimized to do the lookup of the file/directory instead of redirecting the request. For example, this configuration triggers the issue: `cms.dfs lookup central mdhold 20m` and this doesn't `cms.dfs lookup distrib mdhold 20m redirect immed` Here and example of what you see when trying to create an already existing directory with gfal-mkdir: ``` [root@27d1fc7f1d47 tpc_transfers]# gfal-ls davs://xrootd.ultralight.org:1094/store/temp/user/ddavila/ hello-001 newdir [root@27d1fc7f1d47 tpc_transfers]# gfal-mkdir https://xrootd.ultralight.org:1094/store/temp/user/ddavila/newdir/ gfal-mkdir error: 2 (No such file or directory) - HTTP 404 : File not found with url https://xrootd.ultralight.org:1094/store/temp/user/ddavila/newdir/ ``` We saw this in versions: `4.12.3-1` and `5.0.2-1` -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/pull/1164#issuecomment-743460037 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1