HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV
RFC 2518
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RFC - Proposed Standard
(February 1999; Errata)
Obsoleted by RFC 4918
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| Authors | Stephen Carter , E. Whitehead , Yaron Goland , Asad Faizi , Del Jensen | ||
| Last updated | 2020-01-21 | ||
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Network Working Group Y. Goland
Request for Comments: 2518 Microsoft
Category: Standards Track E. Whitehead
UC Irvine
A. Faizi
Netscape
S. Carter
Novell
D. Jensen
Novell
February 1999
HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV
Status of this Memo
This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
Copyright Notice
Copyright (C) The Internet Society (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document specifies a set of methods, headers, and content-types
ancillary to HTTP/1.1 for the management of resource properties,
creation and management of resource collections, namespace
manipulation, and resource locking (collision avoidance).
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT............................................................1
1 INTRODUCTION .....................................................5
2 NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS ...........................................7
3 TERMINOLOGY ......................................................7
4 DATA MODEL FOR RESOURCE PROPERTIES ...............................8
4.1 The Resource Property Model ...................................8
4.2 Existing Metadata Proposals ...................................8
4.3 Properties and HTTP Headers ...................................9
4.4 Property Values ...............................................9
4.5 Property Names ...............................................10
4.6 Media Independent Links ......................................10
5 COLLECTIONS OF WEB RESOURCES ....................................11
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5.1 HTTP URL Namespace Model .....................................11
5.2 Collection Resources .........................................11
5.3 Creation and Retrieval of Collection Resources ...............12
5.4 Source Resources and Output Resources ........................13
6 LOCKING .........................................................14
6.1 Exclusive Vs. Shared Locks ...................................14
6.2 Required Support .............................................16
6.3 Lock Tokens ..................................................16
6.4 opaquelocktoken Lock Token URI Scheme ........................16
6.4.1 Node Field Generation Without the IEEE 802 Address ........17
6.5 Lock Capability Discovery ....................................19
6.6 Active Lock Discovery ........................................19
6.7 Usage Considerations .........................................19
7 WRITE LOCK ......................................................20
7.1 Methods Restricted by Write Locks ............................20
7.2 Write Locks and Lock Tokens ..................................20
7.3 Write Locks and Properties ...................................20
7.4 Write Locks and Null Resources ...............................21
7.5 Write Locks and Collections ..................................21
7.6 Write Locks and the If Request Header ........................22
7.6.1 Example - Write Lock ......................................22
7.7 Write Locks and COPY/MOVE ....................................23
7.8 Refreshing Write Locks .......................................23
8 HTTP METHODS FOR DISTRIBUTED AUTHORING ..........................23
8.1 PROPFIND .....................................................24
8.1.1 Example - Retrieving Named Properties .....................25
8.1.2 Example - Using allprop to Retrieve All Properties ........26
8.1.3 Example - Using propname to Retrieve all Property Names ...29
8.2 PROPPATCH ....................................................31
8.2.1 Status Codes for use with 207 (Multi-Status) ..............31
8.2.2 Example - PROPPATCH .......................................32
8.3 MKCOL Method .................................................33
8.3.1 Request ...................................................33
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