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The protocol's aim was to make the Web a readable and writable medium, in line with Tim Berners-Lee 's original vision. It provides functionality to create, change and move documents on a Remote Server (typically a web server or "web share"). This is useful for, among other things, authoring the documents which a web server serves, but can also be used for general web-based file storage that can be accessed from anywhere. Important features in WebDAV protocol include locking (overwrite prevention), properties (creation, removal, and querying of information about author, modified date, etc.), name space management (ability to copy and move Web pages within a server's Namespace ) and collections (creation, removal, and listing of resources). Most modern Operating System s provide built-in support for WebDAV. With the right client and a fast network, it can be almost as easy to use files on a WebDAV server as those stored in local Directories . The WebDAV Working Group concluded its work in March 2007, after an incremental update to RFC2518 was accepted by the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG). Other extensions that were unfinished at that time, such as the BIND protocol, will be finished by their individual authors outside a formal working group. HISTORY WebDAV began in 1996 when Jim Whitehead worked with the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) to host two meetings to discuss the problem of Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web with interested people1 {Link without Title} 2. The original vision of the Web as expounded by Tim Berners-Lee was a both readable and writable Medium . In fact Berners-Lee's first Web Browser , called WorldWideWeb , was able to both view and edit Web Page s; but, as the Web grew, it became, for most users, a read-only medium. Whitehead and other like-minded people wanted to fix that limitation.3 At the W3C meeting, it was decided that the best way to proceed was to form an IETF working group, because the new effort would lead to Extension s to HTTP , which was being standardized at the IETF. As work began on the protocol, it became clear that handling both distributed authoring and Versioning was too much work and that the tasks would have to be separated. The WebDAV group focused on distributed authoring, and left versioning for the future. Versioning was added later by The Delta-V Extension — see the Extensions section below. The protocol consists of a set of new methods and headers for use in HTTP and is almost certainly the first protocol ever to use XML . DOCUMENTS PRODUCED BY THE WORKING GROUP The WebDAV working group has to date produced several works:
OTHER DOCUMENTS PUBLISHED THROUGH IETF
OVERVIEW OF THE PROTOCOL WebDAV added the following methods to HTTP:
. EXTENSIONS AND DERIVATIVES
WINDOWS XP AND THE "MINI REDIRECTOR" works only if Microsoft Office is installed on the computer. Otherwise Windows displays: 'The folder you entered does not appear to be valid. Please choose another.' when adding a network resource. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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