WebDAV servlet

• US 20040163086A1
• Filed: 02/14/2003
• Published: 08/19/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Snyder, Joseph J., Friedman, Richard, Kinner, Jason
• Application Number:
  US10/367,203
• Publication Number:
  US 20040163086A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 719/310
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]

Abstract

Disclosed are WebDAV server components comprising a servlet architecture providing generic interfaces with respect to a plurality of WebDAV methods. Embodiments provide a computer program product comprising code for defining servlets for providing generic interfaces with respect to a plurality of WebDAV methods. Further, embodiments provide a plurality of WebDAV servlets having generic interfaces with respect to a plurality of WebDAV methods, and provide generic interfaces with respect a plurality of HTTP extensions not specifically directed to WebDAV.

Claims

1. A WebDAV server component comprising:

a servlet architecture providing generic interfaces with respect to a plurality of WebDAV methods.

2. The WebDAV server component of claim 1, wherein said WebDAV methods comprise doPropFind, doPropPatch, doMkCol, doCopy, doMove, doLock, and doUnLock.

3. The WebDAV server component of claim 2, wherein said servlet architecture further provides generic interfaces with respect a plurality of HTTP extensions not specifically directed to WebDAV.

4. The WebDAV server component of claim 3, wherein said HTTP extensions comprise doGet, doPost, doPut, and doDelete.

5. The WebDAV server component of claim 1, wherein said servlet architecture implements a class to override at least one method for servicing WebDAV requests.

6. The WebDAV server component of claim 1, wherein said servlet architecture is utilized to provide a WebDAV Slide Servlet, to implement a predefined content management system as a WebDAV Servlet.

7. The WebDAV server component of claim 1, wherein said servlet architecture is utilized to provide a Proxy WebDAV Servlet to create a proxy to at least one other WebDAV server.

8. A computer program product comprising:

code for defining servlets for providing generic interfaces with respect to a plurality of WebDAV methods.

9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein said WebDAV methods comprise doPropFind, doPropPatch, doMkCol, doCopy, doMove, doLock, and doUnLock.

10. The computer program product of claim 9, wherein said code for defining servlets further provides for generic interfaces with respect a plurality of HTTP extensions not specifically directed to WebDAV.

11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein said HTTP extensions comprise doGet, doPost, doPut, and doDelete.

12. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein said code for defining servlets implements a class to override at least one method for servicing WebDAV requests.

13. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein said code for defining servlets is utilized to provide a WebDAV Slide Servlet, to implement a predefined content management system as a WebDAV Servlet.

14. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein said code for defining servlets is utilized to provide a Proxy WebDAV Servlet to create a proxy to at least one other WebDAV server.

15. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein said code for defining servlets comprises a WebDAV middleware server component.

16. A WebDAV system comprising:

means for providing a plurality of WebDAV servlets having generic interfaces with respect to a plurality of WebDAV methods; and

means for providing generic interfaces with respect a plurality of HTTP extensions not specifically directed to WebDAV.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein said WebDAV methods comprise doPropFind, doPropPatch, doMkCol, doCopy, doMove, doLock, and doUnLock.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein said HTTP extensions comprise doGet, doPost, doPut, and doDelete.

19. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

means for overriding at least one method for servicing WebDAV requests.

20. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

means for an underlying servlet container calling a servlet'"'"'s service method when a particular WebDAV servlet of said plurality of WebDAV servlets is executed.