The WebDAV protocol defines the HTTP extensions that enable distributed Web authoring tools to be broadly interoperable, while supporting user needs. WebDAV allows you to create HTTP directories.
The WebDAV protocol provides support for remote software development teams though a wide-range of collaborative applications. WebDAV leverages the success of HTTP and acts as a standard access layer for a wide range of storage repositories. HTTP gives read access, WebDAV gives write access.
WebDAV provides a network protocol for creating interoperable, collaborative applications. Major features of this protocol include:
Long-duration exclusive and shared write locks prevent two or more collaborators from writing to the same resource without first merging changes. To achieve robust Internet-scale collaboration, where network connections may be disconnected arbitrarily, and for scalability, since each open connection consumes server resources, the duration of DAV locks is independent of any individual network connection.
XML properties provide storage for arbitrary metadata, such as a list of authors on Web resources. These properties can be efficiently set, deleted, and retrieved using the DAV protocol. DASL (DAV Searching and Locating) protocol provides searches of Web resources based on the values in XML properties.
Since resources sometimes need to be copied or moved as the Web evolves, DAV supports copy and move operations. Collections, similar to file system directories, can be created and listed.
To enable the WebDAV protocol, complete the following step.
| 1 | From a command line, enter the following command: options webdav.locking.enable on|off |
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