Distributed Authoring and Versioning Extensions for HTTP Enable Team Authoring
GET
This is the simplest method in HTTP. In fact, it was the only method in the original HTTP 0.9 protocol. It does exactly what the name implies: it gets a URL from the server. GET works on all kinds of Web servers, with or without DAV support. A GET request for a specific URL, say /hello.htm, retrieves the hello.htm file.
GET also works on collections. The data returned depends on the server's configuration. For example, even if a collection consists of multiple files, the server may be configured to return a specific file (such as index.html) for collection queries. The content of the file may or may not describe the collection itself. In other words, index.html may or may not contain a directory listing of the requested URL.
OPTIONS
An OPTIONS request is used by client applications to request a list of all supported methods. This method is part of the HTTP specification and the server does not have to support DAV to implement it. It can be very important to know if a server allows a particular method before wasting network bandwidth trying to send an unsupported request. Here is an example of a correctly formatted request:
OPTIONS /default.htm HTTP /1.0
Pragma: No-Cache
UserAgent: HttpRequestBuilder
Host: 5extramiles
The server's reply contains a status code and response headers, but no body:
http://www.microsoft.com/msj/0699/dav/dav.aspxThe answer lies here .
Sme server has a bug or my pentium 3 does not have enough resources to run it.
Perhaps SmoothWall is better.
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