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World Wide Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning

An XML-based enhancement of the HTTP/1.1 protocol for asynchronous document management, which is the standard for accessing documents by using a Web browser application.

Documents that are on a Web server are called resources and are combined into collections.

WebDAV describes methods, headers, and content types in order to do the following:

• prevent resources from being overwritten during distributed editing

• manage metadata using resources (properties)

• create and manage collections

According to the WebDAV Standard Specification RFC (Request for Comments) 2518 (February 1999), the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) is developing additional, special WebDAV specifications (for example, DASL).