1. WebDAV Working across the Internet: Peter Pierrou, Excosoft

2. Imagine Internet without Links...

3. …but we still Edit files like this See the design specification. The source code for... Design Specification This is... Click! ??? Click! ??? 1. Idea 2. Open 3. Browse 4. Find 5. Edit 6. Idea forgotten

4. With links, information is one mouse click away See the design specification. The source code for... Design Specification This is... Click! 1. Idea 2. EDIT

5. New technology: WebDAV http://www.webdav.org ” WebDAV is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. ” Web -based D istributed A uthoring and V ersioning

6. WebDAV Technology Old HTTP Methods: Get, Put Extensions: Lock, Unlock, CheckOut, CheckIn, PropFind, PropPatch, Copy, Move, Delete, MkCol URI = http://host/path/resource Metod = HTTP header + XML

7. Protocol Example PROPFIND /container/ HTTP/1.1 Host: www.excosoft.se Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8" Content-Length: xxxx

8. Who is behind WebDAV? The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) Contributors: University of California Apache Group Microsoft Netscape Novell Xerox Documentum PCDocs Filenet Rational Intersolv IBM

9. Status "Distributed Authoring" approved by IESG "Versioning" almost ready "Distributed Authoring" is included in Windows 2000 as "Web Folders"

10. Versioning Automatic versioning support for versioning-unaware clients Linear versioning, and support for parallel development and configuration management.

11. http server Client HTTP provided Internet read- access

12. Locking, versioning, etc. http+DAV server Client WebDAV provides Internet write-access!

13. Visualizing a Repository WebDAV visualizes a repository as a named hierarchical structure. Database WebDAV

14. From OS-files to Web-resources http+DAV server Application OS Application http://host/herlitz/doc.xml p:\herlitz\doc.xml

15. "Work on the Web" The Internet will be Your archive.

16. Portals The editable portal The non-editable portal

17. Connecting Related Information Address Offer Specifications Received mail Sent mail DAV-enabled PDM DAV-enabled DMS DAV-enabled ERP DAV-enabled CM Customer X

18. My personal portal

19. Features Work directly in source document Everything can be version controlled Easy to create new documents Standard file lock Independent of disks, mounts and OS General metadata handling (properties) Everything has an URL Fast access to information

20. More Features Version controlled Web Sites Use links in mail Faster death of HTML Standard access control The editor is the interface The writeable Intranet Version controlled links Collaboration

21. Ad hoc queries Disk browsing Archive browsing Application entry From Windows...

22. Content controlled browsing Structures and links Knowledge … To Information