Implementations of the WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol

Below is a list of servers and client applications that have documented support for the WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol (RFC 2518). Some may also have support for the DeltaV versioning and configuration management protocol (RFC 3253), and the DAV Searching and Locating (DASL) protocol.

Though we strive to keep this list up-to-date, there are frequent changes made to the pages linked from this page, and it is very difficult to maintain this site. If a specific link is broken, you can often go to the home page for a specific corporation and search for the keyword "WebDAV" to find current documents.

WebDAV Implementations

Servers

• LiveLink WebDAV - WebDAV gateway to the Livelink collaboration, knowledge management and document management server (data sheet (PDF)).
• Merant PVCS Dimensions - A "process control, workflow management, version management, issue management, build management, baseline management, and release management" system has full WebDAV support (data sheet (PDF)).
• Merant PVCS Content Manager - A browser-based Web content management system. It provides full WebDAV support (data sheet (PDF)).
• SilverStream eXtend Director - Provides WebDAV support that allows people to "author and edit content via browser or any WebDAV-compliant tool, and enjoy full web publishing features like version control, document types, XSL style sheet management, ubiquitous delivery". A test server is available (details).
• 4D WebStar V - A full-featured web server for the Macintosh platform. Has full class 2 support.
• Enhanced Storage Solution - iDrive ESS supports the WebDAV protocol as one of its "subscriber applications".
• Driveway Software Platform - Driveway Software Platform is the software that was behind the Driveway online storage system service, now discontinued. Driveway offers WebDAV support.
• Sharepoint - Microsoft's Sharepoint Portal Server supports WebDAV as one of its standard interfaces.
• Internet File System - iFS is Oracle's Internet File System product, which supports WebDAV as one of the protocol interfaces to the iFS store.
• Hyperwave Information Server 6 - Hyperwave now provides WebDAV access into the Hyperwave repository. The Hyperwave eKnowledge Suite and eLearning Suite both use IS/6 and hence also have DAV support.
• Jigsaw - Jigsaw, the W3C's reference HTTP server implementation, provides full class 2 (locking) WebDAV support.
• mod_dav - An Apache module which implements a full Class 2 WebDAV server (locking support was added in the latest release). mod_dav is open source, and freely downloadable.
• Xythos Storage Server - The Xythos Storage Server is a fully functional WebDAV server. Free WebDAV-enabled storage areas powered by the Xythos server are available at Sharemation.com. Storage Server also supports DAV Searching and Locating (DASL), which can be used from a Sharemation account.
• Magi_Dav - A Java module for Apache that implements a class 2 WebDAV server. Designed to have a small footprint so it can be used on a wide range of devices, such as laptop and palmtop computers. Comes with a client application that exploits WebDAV for file sharing and instant messaging. Magi_Dav is open source and freely downloadable.
• IIS 5 - Microsoft supports WebDAV in IIS 5, which is incorporated into Windows 2000 Server.
• Exchange 2000 - Exchange 2000 provides a WebDAV interface into its Web Store. More information can be found in this MSDN article.
• DAV4J - A Java servlet which turns either WebSphere AppServer or Apache into a full-featured (class 2) WebDAV server. Source code is now available on IBM's DeveloperWorks site.
• InScope - Adobe InScope provides WebDAV support for this publishing-oriented asset management server.
• Virtuoso - Virtuoso is a cross-platform e-business integration server. In addition to WebDAV, it also supports SOAP, POP, IMAP, and NNTP, along with XML, and XSL.
• Netware 6 & 5.1 - Novell Netware versions 5.1 and 6 provide full WebDAV support, including interoperability with Office 2000 and Web Folders.
• Zope - The Zope project, a "free, Open Source(tm) web application platform used for building high performance webs sites" has added WebDAV support which is tightly integrated with the Zope object model and security system. Currently a class 1 WebDAV server. Details on using Zope's DAV support can be found in the article, "Authoring Content with WebDAV and FTP".
• 4Suite - An open source XML data server. Provides class 1 (no locking) WebDAV support.
• Intraspect 5 - A fully functional WebDAV server (details). WebDAV provides remote access into this repository that provides a central place from which to access, use, manage information in all common electronic forms.
• WebSite Director WebDAV Server - CyberTeams has added WebDAV support to WebSite Director, and WebSite Director Lite.
• kirra-httpd - A small class 1 WebDAV server written in Perl using libwww-perl-5, Net::Daemon, and HTML::EP. Freely downloadable.
• WebRFM - Web Remote File Manager is a Perl CGI program which provides both Class 1 DAV support, along with Forms-based file access, and support for HTTP/1.1 authoring tools like AOLpress, Netscape Composer, and Amaya.
• PyDAV - A Python-based Class 2 WebDAV server, developed at Xerox PARC, is available for interoperability testing at sandbox.xerox.com, port 8080. It also supports the MKREF method, defined in an early revision of the Advanced Collections Specification.
• python davserver - A Python-based class 1 WebDAV server. The server is written as a series of Python classes that should make it easy for to write a WebDAV server in Python. This server is used by GROUP.lounge, a Web-based groupware server for document sharing and collaboration.

Clients

• Subversion - A configuration management tool designed as a replacement for CVS, which usees DeltaV as its protocol.
• WebDrive - South River Technologies provides WebDrive, software that maps a WebDAV or FTP server location to a local drive. WebDrive also supports SSL and SSH protocols.
• TeamDrive - TeamStream TeamDrive maps a WebDAV or FTP server to a Windows drive.
• XML Spy 4.1 - Altova XML Spy is an Integrated Development Environment for XML. It supports an Open URL command that can make use of WebDAV.
• Dreamweaver - Dreamweaver 4 provides support for WebDAV, under a feature labeled "SourceSafe and WebDAV Integration".
• MacOS X - Apple MacOS X supports the WebDAV file system (webdavfs), which allows WebDAV servers to be mounted as file systems which can then be accessed from the Macintosh desktop.
• Acrobat - Adobe Acrobat 5 supports WebDAV for remote collaborative annotation of PDF documents.
• Photoshop - Adobe Photoshop 6 supports the WebDAV protocol, allowing remote authoring of images. A brief mention of WebDAV can be found in this white paper, page 17, left hand column.
• Illustrator 10 - Adobe Illustrator 10 supports WebDAV for media asset management, allowing checkin/checkout to a WebDAV server.
• Office XP/2000 - Microsoft provides support for WebDAV in Office XP & Office 2000 (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), via the Web Folders facility.
• GoLive 5 - Adobe provides WebDAV support for remote, collaborative, WYSIWYG authoring of Web sites in GoLive 5 (info & screen shot).
• XML Client - Excosoft XML Client is an XML editor with WebDAV support, allowing remote collaborative authoring of XML documents.
• Nautilus - The GNOME project's file manager tool can display views of WebDAV-enabled servers. This work is still ongoing, but screenshots are available.
• Goliath - Presents a Mac Finder-like interface for a WebDAV repository. The first WebDAV client available for the Macintosh. There is also a DAV Example Application which is a WebDAV protocol exerciser for the Mac. Both applications were built with DAVLib, a publically available DAV client library (includes SSL support, MacOS and Linux).
• WebDAV Explorer - Presents a graphical interface to a repository of WebDAV resources. Written in Java, with the executable available for download, and source code available in a publically available CVS archive. Now compliant with RFC 2518.
• davfs - davfs is a Linux file system driver that allows you to map a WebDAV server as a Linux drive, providing filesystem level compatibility with existing applications and tools.
• cadaver - A command-line client for accessing WebDAV repositories, similar to the ubiquitous FTP command-line tools.
• sitecopy - sitecopy copies locally stored web sites to remote DAV and FTP servers.
• Internet Explorer - Version 5 of MSIE supports WebDAV with its "Web Folders" feature ("File... Open, then click "Open as Web Folder", or from the desktop, go to "Web Folders" located in "My Computer").

Client Libraries

• DAV4J Client library (Java) - A full-featured Java client API for the WebDAV protocol. Provides protocol-independent (not just WebDAV) communication between client and server applications including support for http:, rmi:, and local access.
• Slide client library (Java) - This is the client library developed as part of the Apache Jakarta Slide project.
• SkunkDAV client library (Java) - A Java WebDAV client library (package org.skunk.dav.client), part of the SkunkDAV project, but usable separately.
• HTTP::DAV (Perl) - A Perl 5 language client library for WebDAV. Extends the popular libWWW-perl. Freely available, and open-source.
• Neon (C) - A C library supporting all WebDAV features. The foundation of the cadaver and sitecopy clients, but usable separately.
• EZDAV Library (C++) - EZDAV is a WebDAV client library written for the Windows environment. It is released under the Mozilla Public License 1.1, and is in C++.
• DAVLib (C++) - A publically available DAV client library that works under MacOS and Linux, and includes SSL support.
• OLE DB Provider for Internet Publishing (Rosebud) (C/C++, VisualBasic) - Microsoft's Windows-based API for accessing remote WebDAV or FrontPage servers. Can be used with C/C++ applications using OLE DB, or VisualBasic applications using ActiveX Data Objects (ADO). Note: MSDN often changes page URLs, making deep linking difficult over time. If this link doesn't resolve, go to MSDN and search for "OLE DB WebDAV".
• davlib.py - This module provides client-side access to a DAV server. DAV is a protocol This module provides full access to Class 1 services.
• Zope WebDAV Library (Python) - A Python WebDAV client library. File client.py contains the client library code.
• Smalltalk WebDAV Feature for IBM VisualAge (Smalltalk) - A Smalltalk library that supports threaded HTTP communication over sockets to a WebDAV Server in a non-processor-bounding mode.

Last modified: 03 July 2003