Patent ID: 6842770

Claim:
A system comprising: a plurality of web servers running the distributed authoring and versioning (WebDAV) enabled hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) coupled to the internet; and a plurality of personal computers coupled to the internet, each personal computer comprising a file system plug-in communicatively coupled to a file system of an operating system that forwards file system requests involving file systems stored on one of the plurality of web servers to a network access application program on the personal computer that sends the file system requests as a WebDAV request to an appropriate web server, wherein the file system requests include a filename of a file being accessed and wherein if the filename includes one or more characters that are unrecognized by the web server, the network access application program converts the unrecognized characters of the filename into one or more escape sequences recognizable by the web server prior to transmitting the converted file system requests to the web server, the one or more escape sequences representing the one or more unrecognizable characters.