WebDAV
Proper noun
Meaning
WebDAV
(Internet) Abbreviation of Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning.
Examples
If you use the Firefox browser to work with Confluence, don't forget to reconfigure the Firefox add-on (WebDAV Launcher options) to handle the new Office 2007 file extensions.
System utility that allows FTP, SFTP or WebDAV servers and popular cloud services to mount as local drives on the Mac.
Enter a regex that matches a specific component of the user agent header sent by the WebDAV client you want to restrict.
IMO, WebDAV is less useful.
The desktop and iPhone versions both synchronize their data via the WebDAV server, over Wi-Fi or 3G/EDGE, rather than requiring a direct Wi-Fi connection between your desktop computer and your iPhone.
This allows attackers to create symlinks or hardlinks to files like /etc/passwd and then use WebDAV, file manager, or webmail to read the content of those files.