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RFC 2518: HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring -- WEBDAV

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 4918.

Current version: RFC 4918 — HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

This document specifies a set of methods, headers, and content-types ancillary to HTTP/1.1 for the management of resource properties, creation and management of resource collections, namespace manipulation, and resource locking (collision avoidance). [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Document ID
RFC2518
Published
February 1999
Authors
Y. Goland; E. Whitehead; A. Faizi; S. Carter; D. Jensen
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
app
Pages
94
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Obsoleted by:
RFC 4918

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