December 15, 2004

BitKinex is a file transfer client that supports WebDAV, along with FTP(s), SFTP, HTTP(s), and SSL/SSH.

Julian Reschke maintains an excellent site listing current WebDAV protocol specification activity. Thanks, Julian!

Macromedia provides WebDAV support in Contribute, their organization web-site development and management tool.

South River Technologies has released GroupDrive Server, a collaboration server that supports WebDAV. It supports block-level locking and access to documents, allowing simultaneous editing of the same document by multiple people. South River Tech. also makes the WebDrive client, which maps a WebDAV server to a Windows drive letter.

Jakarta Slide is a Java-based WebDAV server and client library that supports multiple underlying content repositories. Slide's WebDAV Contruction Kit provides a framework for more easily integrating WebDAV capabilities into existing Java software using Slide.

The SecuritySpace Apache module report reports over 513,000 servers using mod_dav, Apache's WebDAV module.

CalDAV is a calendar access protocol that builds on top of WebDAV. John Udell's Weblog discusses CalDAV.

Onion is a WebDAV client library in C++ for Windows, Unix, and MacOS.

May 18, 2004

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published the WebDAV Access Control Protocol as Proposed Standard Request for Comments (RFC) 3744. This protocol provides access control lists (ACLs) for controlling who has which privileges on a resource. Clients may remotely set and retrieve access control lists using the protocol. Available in [HTML] [XML] [PDF]. We are grateful for the editing work of many individuals over the course of this project, including early work by Yaron Goland, Paul Leach, Lisa Dusseault, Howard Palmer, and Jon Radoff, and more recently, the work of Julian Reschke who pushed the project to completion.

Lisa Dusseault is presenting a tutorial on WebDAV at the Hypertext 2004 conference, August 10, in Santa Cruz, California.

April 1, 2004

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has published the WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol as Proposed Standard Request for Comments (RFC) 3648. This protocol permits servers to have long-lived orderings of the members of collection, and gives clients the ability to change this ordering. Available in [HTML] [XML] [PDF]. Many thanks are due to Judy Slein for starting this effort, and Julian Reschke for pushing it through to completion.

Bita Shadgar has received her PhD from the University of Bristol, UK, with a thesis titled, "A Framework for Authoring Databases based on the WebDAV Protocol - WebDAD". She will also be presenting this work at the WWW2004 conference. Congratulations, Bita!

Teng Xu has completed a Master's project titled, "Prestan: The Design and Implementation of a WebDAV Server Performance Test Suite". Version 0.2 of Prestan has also been released. Congratulations, Teng!

Davenport is a "servlet-based WebDAV gateway to a CIFS network. This allows you to access Windows/Samba shares using any web browser. WebDAV clients (such as Windows Web Folders) can upload and download from the shares as if they were local folders."

WebDAV Working Groups

This area contains information about the IETF Working Groups that are working on WebDAV.

Projects and Software

This is the fun part... what are people doing with DAV? Look here for information on the projects that people in the DAV community are working on. Both open-source and commercial projects are listed here.

Specifications

This section contains links to the various specifications that are related to DAV, such as HTTP and XML.

Papers and Articles

Several papers, presentations, and articles have been written about DAV, which you can find here.

Other resources

This area contains resources for DAV that don't really fall under the above areas. For example, the FAQ, additional XML resources, and WebDAV-related job listings are located here.