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<article lang="&language;" id="webdav">
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<title>webdav</title>
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<articleinfo>
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<authorgroup>
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<author><firstname>Hamish</firstname><surname>Rodda</surname>
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<affiliation><address><email>meddie@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au</email></address></affiliation></author>
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</authorgroup>
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<date>2002-01-21</date>
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</articleinfo>
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<para><acronym>WebDAV</acronym> is a <emphasis>D</emphasis>istributed
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<emphasis>A</emphasis>uthoring and <emphasis>V</emphasis>ersioning protocol
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for
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the World Wide Web. It allows for easy management of documents and scripts
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on a
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<ulink url="help:/tdeioslave/webdav.html">http</ulink> server, and has
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additional
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features designed to simplify version management amongst multiple
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authors.</para>
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<para>Usage of this protocol is simple. Type the location you want to view,
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similar to a <acronym>http</acronym> URL except for the webdav:// protocol
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name at the start. An example is
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<userinput>webdav://<replaceable>www.hostname.com/path/</replaceable></userinput>.
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If you specify a directory name, a list of files and directories will be
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displayed,
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and you can manipulate these directories and files just as you would with
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any
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other filesystem.</para>
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<variablelist>
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<title>WebDAV Features</title>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Locking</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>File locking allows users to lock a file, informing others that they
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are
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currently working on this file. This way, editing can be done without fear
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that
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the changes may be overwritten by another person who is also editing the
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same
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document.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Source file access</term>
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<listitem>
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<para><acronym>WebDAV</acronym> allows access to the script which is called
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to
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produce a specific page, so changes can be made to the script itself.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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<varlistentry>
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<term>Per-document property support</term>
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<listitem>
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<para>Arbitrary properties may be set to assist identification of a
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document,
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such as the author.</para>
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</listitem>
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</varlistentry>
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</variablelist>
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<para>To take advantage of these additional capabilities, you will need an
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application which supports them. No application currently supports them
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through
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this tdeioslave.</para>
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