WebDAV: IETF Standard for Collaborative Authoring on the Web

  • Authors:
  • E. James Whitehead, Jr.;Meredith Wiggins

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Internet Computing
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

The paper considers how the World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) working group is extending HTTP 1.1 to provide a standards-based infrastructure for asynchronous collaborative authoring on the Web. The WebDAV extensions support the use of HTTP for interoperable publishing of a variety of content, providing a common interface to many types of repositories and making the Web analogous to a large-grain, network-accessible file system