WebDAV URL connection

• US 20040167983A1
• Filed: 02/21/2003
• Published: 08/26/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 02/21/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Friedman, Richard, Kinner, Jason, Snyder, Joseph J.
• Application Number:
  US10/371,279
• Publication Number:
  US 20040167983A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols

Abstract

A method for connecting a client with a WebDAV-compliant server over a HTTP channel is provided. The method comprises, at a Java™ Virtual Machine (JVM), configuring a WebDAV protocol handler for handling HTTP URL requests. The method further comprises invoking a WebDAV URL connection, allowing a client making a URL request to connect to a WebDAV-compliant server, connecting the client to the WebDAV-compliant server via the WebDAV URL connection; and allowing the connected client to execute WebDAV methods via the WebDAV URL connection.

Claims

1. A system operable to support Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol, said system comprising:

a plurality of applications and server implementations; and

a WebDAV URL connection operable to allow at least one said application to have a raw WebDAV conversation with at least one said server over a HTTP channel.

2. The system of claim 1 further comprising a Java™

Virtual Machine (JVM) operable to use a WebDAV protocol handler for handling HTTP URL requests.

3. The system of claim 2 wherein, dependent upon the setting of a system property, said WebDAV protocol handler is operable to replace an alternative HTTP protocol handler.

4. A method for connecting a client with a WebDAV-compliant server over a HTTP channel, said method comprising:

at a Java™

Virtual Machine (JVM) configuring a WebDAV protocol handler for handling HTTP URL requests;

invoking a WebDAV URL connection;

allowing a client making a URL request to connect to a WebDAV-compliant server;

connecting said client to said WebDAV-compliant server via said WebDAV URL connection; and

allowing said connected client to execute WebDAV methods via said WebDAV URL connection.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein an application using said WebDAV protocol handler constructs valid extensible Markup Language (XML) requests to said WebDAV-compliant server.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein an application using said WebDAV protocol handler parses XML responses from said WebDAV-compliant server.

7. A system operable to support Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) protocol, said system comprising:

at a Java™

Virtual Machine (JVM) means for configuring a WebDAV protocol handler for handling HTTP URL requests;

means for invoking a WebDAV URL connection;

means for allowing a client making a URL request to connect to a WebDAV-compliant server;

means for connecting said client to said WebDAV-compliant server via said WebDAV URL connection; and

means for allowing said connected client to execute WebDAV methods via said WebDAV URL connection.

8. The system of claim 7 comprising means for constructing valid eXtensible Markup Language (XML) requests to said WebDAV-compliant server via an application using said WebDAV protocol handler.

9. The system of claim 7 comprising means for parsing XML responses from said WebDAV-compliant server via an application using said WebDAV protocol handler.

10. Computer-executable software code stored to a computer-readable medium, said computer-executable software code comprising:

code for configuring a WebDAV protocol handler for handling HTTP URL requests;

code for invoking a WebDAV URL connection;

code for allowing a client making a URL request to connect to a WebDAV-compliant server;

code for connecting said client to said WebDAV-compliant server via said WebDAV URL connection; and

code for allowing said connected client to execute WebDAV methods via said WebDAV URL connection.

11. The computer-executable software code of claim 10 comprising code for constructing valid eXtensible Markup Language (XML) requests to said WebDAV-compliant server via an application using said WebDAV protocol handler.

12. The computer-executable software code of claim 10 comprising code for parsing XML responses from said WebDAV-compliant server via an application using said WebDAV protocol handler.

13. The computer-executable software code of claim 10, wherein said code for configuring a WebDAV protocol handler for handling HTTP URL requests is executable at a Java™

Virtual Machine (JVM).