Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of extensions to the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote servers.

The protocol's aim was to make the Web a readable and writable medium. It provides functionality to create, change and move documents on a remote (typically a web server or "web share"). This is useful for, among other things, authoring the documents which a web server serves, but can also be used for general web-based file storage that can be accessed from anywhere.

WebDAV is designed to make the web into a read/write medium, instead of the basically read- only medium that exists today. This allows directories and files to be shared, as both readable and writable objects, over the web. Most modern operating systems provide built-in support for WebDAV.

Business associates in separate locations can collaborate and work on projects together using WebDAV protocol. Users can collaborate over the web the way they might over a corporate intranet LAN or over the Internet securely using SSL (Secure Sockets Layer).

Here is a list of some of the commercial applications that currently support the WebDAV protocol:

• Apache Tomcat Server • Windows Server • MAC OS X Server • Groupware • • IBM AS/400

What does this mean? You can now, with Sharescan Suite 4.2, setup a Quick Connector and using the WebDAV protocol.

The following is an example of a Quick Connected with WebDAV protocol being used to scan to a Microsoft IIS web server:

Sharescan Quick Connect Configuration

Microsoft IIS Configuration