WebDAV
WebDAV, Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (often simply referred to as DAV), is an extensive framework that seeks to provide a medium for Web-based collaboration. The WebDAV specification identifies three fundamental characteristics:
Locking
Properties
Namespace management
Locking is an essential topic whenever more than one entity can access the same resource. With collaboration between multiple people, the resource can be a file that can be edited. In order to allow for synchronization so that multiple people can edit the same file without overwriting each other’s changes, a resource can be locked. This means only one person at a time can edit the resource. This technique avoids the necessity of merging changes, whereby multiple ...
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