Appendix C. WebDAV and Autoversioning

Appendix C. WebDAV and Autoversioning

Table of Contents

Basic WebDAV Concepts
Original WebDAV
DeltaV Extensions
Subversion and DeltaV
Autoversioning
Client Interoperability
Standalone WebDAV applications
Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop
Cadaver, DAV Explorer
File-explorer WebDAV extensions
Microsoft Web Folders
Nautilus, Konqueror
WebDAV filesystem implementation
WebDrive, NetDrive
Mac OS X
Linux davfs2

WebDAV is an extension to HTTP, and is growing more and more popular as a standard for file-sharing. Today's operating systems are becoming extremely Web-aware, and many now have built-in support for mounting “shares” exported by WebDAV servers.

If you use Apache/mod_dav_svn as your Subversion network server, then to some extent, you are also running a WebDAV server. This appendix gives some background on the nature of this protocol, how Subversion uses it, and how well Subversion interoperates with other software that is WebDAV-aware.