RFC 3744 (rfc3744) - Page 1 of 72
Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control Protocol
Alternative Format: Original Text Document
Network Working Group G. Clemm
Request for Comments: 3744 IBM
Category: Standards Track J. Reschke
greenbytes
E. Sedlar
Oracle Corporation
J. Whitehead
U.C. Santa Cruz
May 2004
Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
Access Control Protocol
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 (2004). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document specifies a set of methods, headers, message bodies,
properties, and reports that define Access Control extensions to the
WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol. This protocol permits a
client to read and modify access control lists that instruct a server
whether to allow or deny operations upon a resource (such as
HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) method invocations) by a given
principal. A lightweight representation of principals as Web
resources supports integration of a wide range of user management
repositories. Search operations allow discovery and manipulation of
principals using human names.
Clemm, et al. Standards Track