Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP11 Administrator's Guide

Restricting Access on WebDAV-Enabled Resources

Access control for a WebDAV collection is specified using native ACL files. Every WebDAV method requires a particular access right to a WebDAV-enabled resource. For example, if a WebDAV-enabled file is to be shared by concurrent users, in order to lock or unlock the resource for concurrency control, a write permission to the resource is required.

The following table below summarizes the rights required for WebDAV methods.

Table 19–4 Rights required for WebDAV

DAV Methods  

Access Rights Needed  

DELETE 

delete 

PROPFIND 

read 

PROPPATCH 

write 

LOCK/UNLOCK 

write 

MKCOL 

write 

COPY(src,dst)

src - read

dst - write

MOVE(src,dst)

src - delete

dst - write

GET on request-uri 

read 

GET on request-uri 

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read 

PUT on request-uri 

write 

PUT on request-uri 

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write