[ Thanks to Falko
Timme for this link. ]
“Web-based distributed authoring and versioning or WebDAV is the
protocol that is creating the ‘read-write’ web. It is facilitating
collaboration in many ways across the internet, replacing
proprietary protocols (FrontPage, e.g.) or superseding less
functional open protocols ((FTP, SFTP). The primary drivers for the
adoption of WebDAV include:
- “WebDAV resources can be set up like local drives allowing you
to work with remote files as if they were on your machine.- “It allows for ‘locking’ of files so multiple users can work
with a file at the same time, but only one at a time can make
changes…”