nginx proxy_pass to location returns 401 error

Question

I have a WebDAV server set up, with its root folder /SomeVolume/webdav/contents and address 192.168.1.2:12345. User and password are set and the server can be accessed from a browser.

I am directing a domain name to the same machine using nginx, like this:

server {
    server_name my.domain.me;
    location / {
        proxy_pass http://192.168.1.2:12345;
    }
    # plus the usual Certbot SSL stuff

This was working perfectly well, with HTTPS authentication and everything. I am using a third-party application that uses that server and it was working OK too.

I wanted to make this a bit more tidy and only changed couple of things:

WebDav server root to /SomeVolume/webdav (instead of /SomeVolume/webdav/contents), restarted the server.
proxy_pass http://192.168.1.2:12345 changed to proxy_pass http://192.168.1.2:12345/contents. Restarted ngninx.

Nothing else was modified.

I can still login through the browser, but the third-party application has stopped working because it gets authentication errors (401). Although if I try to login locally with http://192.168.1.2:12345/contents/ it works just fine.

What am I not understanding here? Is it some caching problem with the third-party application or have I misunderstood how location & proxy_pass work?

Thanks.

nginx proxy_pass to location returns 401 error

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