Greg Stein, Google
Track: Apache Web Server
Date: Wednesday, July 24
Time: 4:30pm - 5:15pm
Location: Sea Breeze I
Using Apache, mod_dav, and the WebDAV protocol, almost any repository can be published to users. Your repository can be made available directly on the web, on a user's desktop, inside publishing applications, and even as a custom data store.
mod_dav is a module for the Apache HTTP server that allows it to speak the WebDAV protocol, as defined by RFCs 2518 and 3253. Many client tools, applications, and SDKs understand the WebDAV protocol, and its use is growing every day.
The mod_dav module has an API that can be used by a provider to publish a repository -- from simple access features to complex versioning operations. The Subversion project (a CVS replacement) uses the mod_dav architecture to publish its repository.
This talk will briefly discuss WebDAV and how people and custom applications use it. It will then move to a discussion of mod_dav itself, with explanations of how resources, properties, and other items are modeled. APIs and structures will be covered, and the default file system provider and the Subversion provider will be used as examples.
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