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# WebDAV
WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) is an extension of [HTTP](../internet/HTTP.md)/1.1 and therefore can be considered to be a protocol. It contains a set of concepts and accompanying extension methods to allow read and write across the [HTTP](../internet/HTTP.md)/1.1 protocol. Instead of using NFS or [SMB](../applications/web/Samba.md), WebDAV offers file transfers via [HTTP](../internet/HTTP.md). A hosting application with WebDAV support is [dufs](../applications/web/dufs.md).