Several WebDAV clients and servers have now been implemented, and have been tested against each other. The table below captures, at a high level, interoperability experience to date between client/server pairs.
The intent is to keep this Web page up-to-date. If you notice any entries which are no longer correct, please email Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu> with updated information. Especially if you are implementing a WebDAV client or server, please send updates on experience with your application.
This interoperability information is very important for advancing the standardization status of WebDAV specifications. Within the IETF, a specification starts on the "standards track" at Proposed Standard. Advancing to Draft Standard requires at least two interoperable implementations of every protocol feature from different code bases (for detailed information on how a specification advances along the standards track, see RFC 2026). So, for WebDAV, this means two server implementations of every feature, and two client implementations of every feature. Compliance with these features has to be documented, and this Web page will be the starting point for collecting this information.
| Server Client |
PyDAV | Apache mod_dav | IIS 5 | WebSite Director DAV | Zope WebDAV Server |
| WebDAV Explorer | WebDAV Explorer supports draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-08, which supports old-style XML namespaces, hence no interoperability. | WebDAV Explorer supports draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-08, which supports old-style XML namespaces, hence no interoperability. | WebDAV Explorer supports draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-08, which supports old-style XML namespaces, hence no interoperability. | WebDAV Explorer supports draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-08, which supports old-style XML namespaces, hence no interoperability. | WebDAV Explorer supports draft-ietf-webdav-protocol-08, which supports old-style XML namespaces, hence no interoperability. |
| davlib.py | Successful interoperability | Successful interoperability, with some problems identified and reported to the mod_dav team. | No report available. | The latest revision was announced on the list. Subsequent problems reported here. | No report available. |
| Internet Explorer 5 | Testing in progress, initial interoperability experience was reported here | Successful interoperability. Methods exercised: GET, PUT, MOVE, DELETE, MKCOL. | Successful interoperability Methods exercised: GET, PUT, MOVE, DELETE, MKCOL. | No report available. | Successful interoperability (GET, HEAD, PUT, PROPFIND, DELETE, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE tested). Details here. |
| sitecopy | DELETE, MOVE, PUT, MKCOL working correctly | DELETE, MOVE, PUT, MKCOL working correctly | DELETE, MOVE, PUT, MKCOL working correctly | Joe Orton reported seeing some 422 errors in this message | DELETE, MOVE, PUT, MKCOL working correctly |
Last updated: March 29, 1999