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QWebDAV Library (qwebdavlib) version 1.0

is a library for Qt4 and provides access to WebDAV servers. WebDAV is an extension for HTTP, so that a Web server can provide write access in addition to read access. The WebDAV standard provides the essential functionalities to access a Web server like a file server.

More information http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebDAV

WebDAV standard as RFC4918: "HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)" from June 2007 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918

This library has been derived from previous works QWebdav plugin for MeeDav (LGPL v2.1) http://projects.developer.nokia.com/meedav/ QWebdav - WebDAV lib for Qt4 (LGPL v2.1) http://xf.iksaif.net/dev/qwebdav.html

Tested WebDAV server: * Apache HTTP Server with mod_dav Apache/2.2.14, http://httpd.apache.org/ * Microsoft Internet Information Service 7.5 (MS IIS 7.5) as used by Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 * SabreDAV - WebDAV framework for PHP SabreDAV 1.6.1-stable, http://code.google.com/p/sabredav/

QWebdav Library supports the following authentication methods: (as provided by Qt4)

* Basic
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication
* NTLM version 1 (older Windows challenge-response authentication)
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLM
* Digest-MD5
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digest_access_authentication

More information on authentication by Qt4
    http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.7/qauthenticator.html