We'll wrap up with a high-level look at some of the ways you can use WebDAV within your Tomcat applications. In this article, we'll provide an introduction to using WebDAV with applications hosted on Apache Tomcat, so you can begin considering how the WebDAV protocol can best benefit your architecture.įirst, we'll walk you through the basic steps required to enable a hosted WebDAV folder on your Apache Tomcat server, including configuration, basic security and connectivity testing. Extensions such as Delta-V, DASL, GroupDAV and CalDAV offer additional features under the same protocol, including revision tracking, search, group data stores and calendaring. The functionality that WebDAV provides is similar to FTP, but is more efficient and supports complex functions such as authentication, encryption without SSH, proxy support and caching, as well as more specialized verb methods such as LOCK and UNLOCK, all over HTTP. Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning, or WebDAV, is a set of HTTP protocol extensions that allow collaborative editing and management of files stored on a remote server or servers. Configure Tomcat WebDAV access in 3 easy steps