Web Authoring and HTTP Traditionally, HTTP has only been used for web browsing, not web authoring. Alternatively, less privileged authors, who are using a dial-up Internet Service Provider, might be given FTP access to an area on a web server. Before giving a description of WebDAV, it is useful to give a brief introduction to HTTP itself. The method describes the type of the request. The URI identifies the resource on which the method is intended to operate.
Headers provide any extra information about the request that is required.
HTTP request and the response is given below. Basic web publishing The PUT method, as covered in a previous feature article , provides the most basic form of web publishing. This method is used to upload new or changed documents to the server. The last two methods required for basic web authoring are the COPY and MOVE methods. Properties WebDAV allows you to define properties on resources.