The solutions of WebDAV

WebDAV provides solutions to most of the problems described above. First, it is a public standard so it is not bound with a specific vendor. Lots of vendors however have created WebDAV implementation. Second, it allows an author to attach metadata to the Web resource which can be later browsed by the users. It also improves the way the content of a Web server is listed. Next, as an HTTP extension it uses only HTTP messages, so it prevents administrators from installing and configuring any other software except the Web server.

Now a description will be given to the new methods, headers and status codes defined in the WebDAV and how the fit in the big picture.