RFC 2518 (rfc2518) - Page 1 of 94
HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV
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Network Working Group Y. Goland
Request for Comments: 2518 Microsoft
Category: Standards Track E. Whitehead
UC Irvine
A. Faizi
Netscape
S. Carter
Novell
D. Jensen
Novell
February 1999
HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV
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 (1999). All Rights Reserved.
Abstract
This document specifies a set of methods, headers, and content-types
ancillary to HTTP/1.1 for the management of resource properties,
creation and management of resource collections, namespace
manipulation, and resource locking (collision avoidance).
Table of Contents
ABSTRACT............................................................1
1 INTRODUCTION .....................................................5
2 NOTATIONAL CONVENTIONS ...........................................7
3 TERMINOLOGY ......................................................7
4 DATA MODEL FOR RESOURCE PROPERTIES ...............................8
4.1 The Resource Property Model ...................................8
4.2 Existing Metadata Proposals ...................................8
4.3 Properties and HTTP Headers ...................................9
4.4 Property Values ...............................................9
4.5 Property Names ...............................................10
4.6 Media Independent Links ......................................10
5 COLLECTIONS OF WEB RESOURCES ....................................11
Goland, et al. Standards Track