diff --git a/doc/README.WebDAV b/doc/README.WebDAV
index 0f66f8318..ea0f6d003 100644
--- a/doc/README.WebDAV
+++ b/doc/README.WebDAV
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 WebDAV
------------------------------------------------
+========
 
 SeedDMS has support for WebDAV which allows to easily add, delete,
 move, copy and modify documents. All operating systems have support
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ the content of document or creating a new
 version if a document is saved.
 
 Configuring davfs2
-===================
+-------------------
 
 On Linux it is quite simple to mount the SeedDMS WebDAV server with
 davfs2. Just place a line like the following in your /etc/fstab
@@ -51,15 +51,14 @@ and possibly add your login data to /etc/davfs2/secrets
 /media/webdav admin secret
 
 Making applications work with WebDAV
-=====================================
+-------------------------------------
 
 Various programms have differnt strategies to save files to disc and
 prevent data lost under all circumstances. Those strategies often don't
 work very well an a WebDAV-Server. The following will list some of those
 strategies.
 
-VIM
-=========================
+### VIM
 
 vim does a lot more than just reading and writing the file you want
 to edit. It creates swap and backup files for data recovery if vim crashes
@@ -69,7 +68,7 @@ swap file at all or create it outside the WebDAV server. A second problem
 arises from how vim modifіes the file you are editing. Before a file
 is saved a backup is created by renaming the file to the same name with a
 '~' at the end and writing the file content into a new
-file with the name of the original file. Afterwards vim deleteѕ the backup
+file with the name of the original file. Afterwards vim deletes the backup
 file. On a regular file system you
 won't see a difference between the file before and after saving, though
 it is actually a new one. In SeedDMS you won't notice a difference either
@@ -89,11 +88,10 @@ set nowritebackup
 set noswapfile
 
 Creating the backup file in a directory outside of WebDAV doesn't help in
-this case, because it still does the file renaming which is turned of by
+this case, because it still does the file renaming which is turned off by
 'nowritebackup'.
 
-cdaver
-========
+### cdaver
 
 cadaver is a webdav client similar to classical command line based ftp clients.
 It can be used to browse through the folders, downloads and uploads files, and
diff --git a/webdav/webdav.php b/webdav/webdav.php
index fef50fa0f..4d68a811d 100644
--- a/webdav/webdav.php
+++ b/webdav/webdav.php
@@ -663,14 +663,17 @@ class HTTP_WebDAV_Server_SeedDMS extends HTTP_WebDAV_Server
 
 		$tmp = explode(';', $mimetype);
 		$mimetype = $tmp[0];
+		$lastDotIndex = strrpos($name, ".");
+		if($lastDotIndex === false) $fileType = ".";
+		else $fileType = substr($name, $lastDotIndex);
 		switch($mimetype) {
-			case 'application/pdf';
+			case 'application/pdf':
 				$fileType = ".pdf";
 				break;
-			default:
-				$lastDotIndex = strrpos($name, ".");
-				if($lastDotIndex === false) $fileType = ".";
-				else $fileType = substr($name, $lastDotIndex);
+			case 'text/plain':
+				if($fileType == '.md')
+					$mimetype = 'text/markdown';
+				break;
 		}
 		if($this->logger)
 			$this->logger->log('PUT: file is of type '.$mimetype, PEAR_LOG_INFO);
@@ -698,7 +701,7 @@ class HTTP_WebDAV_Server_SeedDMS extends HTTP_WebDAV_Server
 				unlink($tmpFile);
 				return "403 Forbidden";
 			} else {
-				/* Check if the new version iѕ identical to the current version.
+				/* Check if the new version is identical to the current version.
 				 * In that case just update the modification date
 				 */
 				$lc = $document->getLatestContent();