What is WebDAV?

WebDAV is an XML based protocol, it defines a set of new methods (PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE, LOCK, UNLOCK) and a set of new headers (DAV, Depth, If, Destination, ...). A good overview of WebDAV: WebDAV in 2 minutes

The Jigsaw implementation of WebDAV is based on RFC 2518.

Jigsaw a WebDAV server

Here we describe the process to turn Jigsaw into a WebDAV server.

Change the server class

The usual server class is org.w3c.jigsaw.http.httpd, the one used for WebDAV is org.w3c.jigsaw.webdav.webdavd. So edit [jigsaw-home]Jigsaw/Jigsaw/config/servers.props, you should have something like:

org.w3c.jigsaw.daemon.handlers=http-server|admin-server
http-server.org.w3c.jigsaw.daemon.class=org.w3c.jigsaw.webdav.webdavd
admin-server.org.w3c.jigsaw.daemon.class=org.w3c.jigsaw.admin.AdminServer

Then, restart Jigsaw.

Create a WebDAV indexer

The DAV indexer is based on the default indexer of the classic http server, replace the HTTPFrames by some DAVFrames (org.w3c.jigsaw.webdav.DAVFrame) and set the following flags:

• Putable: true if you want to be able to update the resource using WebDAV.
• Allow Delete: true if you want to be able to delete some resource using WebDAV.

Now set the indexer of the root resource (for example) to DAV-indexer.

Configure Authentication

Of course it is safe to restrict access of method like PUT, DELETE, MKCOL, LOCK... So you should read the Authentication tutorials in order to create WebDAV user.