WebDAV Servers
This section describes how to use the Admin Interface to create and configure WebDAV servers.
Note
To create and configure WebDAV servers programmatically, see Creating and Configuring App Servers in the Scripting Administrative Tasks Guide.
WebDAV (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is a protocol that extends the HTTP protocol to provide the ability to write documents through these HTTP extensions. You need a WebDAV client to write documents, but you can still read them through HTTP (through a web browser, for example). For information about WebDAV clients supported in MarkLogic Server, see WebDAV Clients. For general information about WebDAV and the WebDAV protocol, see http://webdav.org.
A WebDAV server in MarkLogic Server is similar to an HTTP server with these important differences:
WebDAV servers cannot execute XQuery code.
WebDAV servers support the WebDAV protocol to allow WebDAV clients to have read and write access (depending on the security configuration) to a database.
A WebDAV server only accesses documents and directories in a database; it does not access the file system directly.