• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.11 no.1
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• pp.167-181
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• 2010

WebDAV is an IETF standard protocol which supports asynchronous collaborative authoring on the Web. The WebDAV Access Control Protocol provides various methods of controlling the resources on a WebDAV server and their properties, helping high-level group activities to be performed through the WebDAV server. In this paper, to provide high level collaboration, we introduce a technique for managing access control over WebDAV resources through the WebDAV Access Control Protocol and describe the development of an access control manager for the CoSlide Collaborative system based on the technique. To provide users with the access control features in an easily understandable manner, the developed technique presents the privileges for performing WebDAV methods instead of the standard privileges in the WebDAV Access Control Protocol. In addition, we present the facility for detecting conflicts between new access privileges on resources and old access privileges on them. We applied the method-based access control management technique to the CoSlide collaborative system. The developed access control manager enables us to create group workspaces with flexible access control strategies for group members and resources.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.2 s.105
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• pp.249-258
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• 2006

WebDAV is an IETF standard protocol, which is an extended version of HTTP 1.1, supporting asynchronous collaborative authoring of various contents on the web. Recently, to precisely control access to the resources on a WebDAY server, the WebDAV Access Control Protocol was published. This protocol helps developers to implement advanced server functionalities in a convenient way by providing various control methods to the resources on the WebDAV server. Based on the WebDAV access control protocol, we developed Open Workspaces, which systematically support exchanging and sharing data for general visitors. An Open Workspace can be supplied as a Download-Only Open Workspace, an Upload-Only Open Workspace, or an Upload-Download Open Workspace. Any registered user can create these workspaces without bothering the system administrator. To support the Open Workspaces, we extended the Slide WebDAV server and the DAVExplorer WebDAV client, which are being used popularly.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartC
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• v.13C no.4 s.107
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• pp.521-532
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• 2006

WebDAV is an IETF standard protocol which support asynchronous collaborative authoring on the Web. The recently published WebDAV Access Control Protocol provides various methods of controlling the resources on a WebDAV server and their properties, helping high-level group activities to be performed through the WebDAV server. Based on the WebDAV access control protocol, we developed Group Workspaces which support exchanging and/or sharing data among the group members. Any member of a Group Workspace can create and share resources among the members. Also, any member can add, change or delete the resources. To support the Group Workspaces, we developed a client application named GroupExplorer, which solely supports Group Workspaces. We constructed the server for Group Workspaces using Jakarta Slide - a WebDAV server supporting the WebDAV Access Control Protocol.