In our mainly windows company environment, I often receive links in emails like this
file://some.server/DavWWWRoot/pwa/some/path/to/a/document
The files are served by a Sharepoint server, and M$ introduced the special "DavWWWRoot" prefix to notify
then WebDav shall be used.
See https://www.webdavsystem.com/server/access/windows
With this patch I can now nicely click such an URL and get the same as colleagues using win get