HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring (and Versioning)
- Design: Xerox,
Universities
Bologna
and Boston.
- Specification: Microsoft, Netscape, Novell.
A specification for a virtual/synthetic extensible file system.
| Method | Comment |
|---|---|
| GET, PUT, DELETE | Operate on a single resource (file). HTTP/1.1 |
| PROPFIND, PROPATCH | Read/write resource properties (attributes) - XML 😯 |
| MKCOL, PROPFIND, DELETE | Create/list/delete collections (directories) |
| COPY, MOVE | Server side (recursive) copy/move |
| LOCK, UNLOCK | (Recursive) write locks |