Hye Young Jung , Geon Tae Ahn , Yang Soo Park , Myung Joon Lee

The KIPS Transactions:PartC, Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 545-554, Aug. 2004
10.3745/KIPSTC.2004.11.4.545,   PDF Download:

Abstract

WebDAV is a protocol to support collaboration among the workers in geographically distant locations through the Internet. WebDAV extends the web communication protocol HTTP/1.1 to provide a standard infrastructure for supporting asynchronous collaboration for various contents across the Internet. To provide the WebDAV functionality in legacy applications such as web-based collaborative systems or document management systems, those systems need to be implemented additionally to handle the WebDAV methods and headers information. In this paper, we developed an Apache-based WebDAV server, named DAVinci(WebDAV Is New Collaborative web-authoring Innovation) which supports the WebDAV specification. DAVinci was implemented as a form of service provider on a mod_dav Apache module. Mod_dav, which is an Apache module, is an open source module to provide WebDAV capabilities in an Apache web server. We used a file system for storing resources and the PostgreSQL database for their properties. In addition, the system provides a consistency manager to guarantee that both resources and properties are maintained without inconsistency between resources and their properties.

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