The WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol document specifies a set of headers and methods which extend the Hypertext Transfer Protocol to provide capabilities for overwrite prevention (locking), properties, and namespace management. It provides a standard network protocol infrastructure for asynchronous collaborative authoring of a wide variety of content across the Internet.
Extensions for Distributed Authoring and
Versioning on the World Wide Web
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead
October 25, 1996
This draft is internally labelled draft-ietf-webdav-v1-spec-00,
and also author's draft v0.1. It was never submitted as an
Internet Draft.
This proposal uses HTTP POST for WebDAV operations.
Version management with
meta-level links via HTTP/1.1
K. Ota, K. Takahashi, K. Sekiya
November 6, 1996
Submitted as Internet-Draft
<draft-ota-http-version-00>. This proposal uses the HTTP
LINK method to provide versioning of HTTP content with
client-enforced version graph consistency.
Extensions for Distributed Authoring and
Versioning on the World Wide Web
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead
November 8, 1996
This draft is internally labeled
draft-ietf-webdav-v1-spec-00, and also author's draft v0.2. It
was never submitted as an Internet Draft.
This proposal uses HTTP POST for WebDAV operations.
Distributed Authoring and Versioning
Protocol
Jim Cunningham, Asad Faizi
November 24, 1996
This draft is internally labelled v0.1, and also internally,
within the HTML, lists Chris Fuchs as an author. This draft was
mailed
to the discussion list. It uses a series of HTTP methods and headers for
remote authoring and versioning operations. This draft caused
quite a stir when it was mailed to the list, since it arrived
without warning, and it's base URL (within the HTML source) was
on a machine called "hidden-agenda". Humorously, it turns out
that the machine was named after a local band in which a team
member played after hours...
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Del Jensen
December 6, 1998
This draft is internally dated November 26, 1996, but it was
sent
to the mailing list on December 6, 1996.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
January 23, 1997
This draft, labeled draft-webdav-draft-06, was sent to the mailing list on January 23, 1997, and
the email
message describes changes to the draft.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web - WEBDAV
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
February 3, 1997
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-jensen-webdav-ext-00>.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web - WEBDAV
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
March 31, 1997
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-jensen-webdav-ext-01>. The
mailing
list announcement lists changes from the previous draft.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web - WEBDAV
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
July 13, 1997
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-00>. This is the first
protocol document submitted as a WebDAV WG Internet Draft.
Announced on the mailing list here.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web - WEBDAV
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
August 1, 1997
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-01>. The date in the header of
the draft is incorrect, and should be August 1, 1997. This
draft was announced on the mailing list here.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web - WEBDAV
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
September 3, 1997
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-02>.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -
WEBDAV
[HTML]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
September 29, 1997.
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-03>. A brief change list is
described in the
message
announcing the draft.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring and Versioning on the World Wide Web -
WEBDAV
[HTML]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
October 12, 1997
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-04>. Announced to the mailing
list in this message.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web -
WEBDAV
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web -
WEBDAV
[HTML]
[PDF]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
January 18, 1998
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-06>. Announced to the mailing
list in this message. A working group last
call for comments period was held on this document.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web -
WEBDAV
[HTML]
[PDF]
[Word 97
(changes tracked)]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
March 6, 1998
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-07>. Announced to the mailing
list in this message which lists major changes.
A second working group last
call for comments period was held on this document.
Extensions for
Distributed Authoring on the World Wide Web -
WEBDAV
[HTML]
[PDF]
[Change list]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
April 7, 1998
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-08>. Announced to the mailing
list in this message.
The draft was submitted to the IESG for approval in
this message.
HTTP Extensions for
Distributed Authoring -
WEBDAV
[PDF]
[Word 97
(chages tracked)]
[List of changes]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
October 22, 1998
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-09>. This revision was made
to address
comments
from Keith Moore, the Applications Area
advisor for WebDAV. Announced to the mailing
list in this message.
Immediately followed by another
working group last call for comments.
HTTP Extensions for
Distributed Authoring - WEBDAV
[PDF]
[Word 97
(chages tracked)]
[List of changes]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
November 16, 1998
This document was submitted as Internet Draft
<draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-10>, and was approved as a
Proposed Standard by the IESG on November 25, 1998.
HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring
- WEBDAV
[PDF (8.5x11)]
[PDF (A4)]
Yaron Goland, Jim Whitehead, Asad Faizi, Steve Carter, Del
Jensen
February, 1999
The Proposed Standard WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol.
Last modified: Fri Mar 26 1999