What is WebDAV?

"Briefly: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers." (definition from www.webdav.org)

Is WebDAV new? At a 1995 WWW4 a group of "developers working on remote authoring tools, and people generally interested in extending the Web for authoring (now known as the WEBDAV working group) first got together and identified key issues encountered in writing these authoring tools.... On March 20, 1997, the Internet Engineering Steering Group (IESG) of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) approved the charter of the WEBDAV Working Group, making WEBDAV an official working group in the Applications Area. WEBDAV is working cooperatively with the World Wide Web Consortium, which provides technical assistance and help contacting interested people within the Web community." from A Brief Into to WebDAV.

Information

The Basics: I guess the best info for now can be found at www.webdav.org. "This site is being produced for the WebDAV community as a central resource for documentation, specifications, software, mailing lists, and other useful items." 08/28/02

IETF WEBDAV Working Group: A page of info and links. This is not for beginners, but may be useful later. Don't know because I'm a Very Beginner! 08/28/02

WebDAV (intro written 03/26/2002 ): The O'Reilly network offers "a single-page summary of recent developments in a technology topic that we have been following". This article offers (about WebDAV) sections on What, Who, Why, How, When, Where, and Opinion. 08/28/02

Mac Users - Goliath: The Mac drag-n-drop feature uses Goliath, which is WebDAV technology, as explained on this page. 08/28/02

Tutorials

Tutorial: A powerpoint presentation to download. Also, a followup discussion. "This tutorial, demonstration, and discussion features existing, already-available provisions of Microsoft Office, Web Folders, and WebDAV repositories. We'll explore what you may not know you already have available for developing and practicing with document-management using web technologies." 08/28/02

Setting up WebDAV in WebCT: this link is to WebCT's Knowledge Base article with instructions for Windows, Mac OS9, Mac OSX. 10/04/02

WebCT with WebDAV: McGill University's short introduction, and links to tutorials on setting up WebDAV with various versions of Windows and Mac. 08/28/02

WebDAV / WebCT: Setup information for Windows and Mac users is posted in WebCT's Knowledge Base article #1050. 08/28/02

WebDAV using NT and NetShares: 09/30/02

Using WebDAV with hosting. Also, linked from there is Creating a hosting Web folder under Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT 4.0   09/30/02