Apache Overview HOWTO: WebDAV

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## 14. WebDAV

>From the WebDAV website: WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers.

It is the open standards equivalent of the MS FrontPage protocol, but it takes the idea several steps further. It enables other protocols to be built on top of it (See the Subversion website for an example.

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