New Feature WebDAV Access Control Protocol In Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

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New Feature WebDAV Access Control Protocol In Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

The Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview was released today! There's a whole bunch of new stuff in 7.0, and you can use it free of charge.

WebDAV and WebDAV Access Control Protocol support in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 now

• Conforms to WebDAV protocol as defined by the RFC 2518.
• Supports the following HTTP methods GET, HEAD, OPTIONS, PUT, LOCK, UNLOCK, MKCOL, COPY, MOVE PROPPATCH, DELETE, PROPFIND.
• Conforms to WebDAV Access Control Protocol as defined by the RFC 3744.
• Also supports ACL, REPORT(DAV:acl-principal-prop-set, DAV:principal-match, DAV:expand-property), PROPFIND (DAV:acl and DAV:current-user-privilege-set property).
• Has finer access rights like dav:all, dav:read, dav:read-acl, dav:read-current-user-privilege-set, dav:write, dav:write-acl, dav:write-properties, dav:write-content, dav:bind, dav:unbind, dav:unlock.

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Configuring WebDAV in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

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Configuring WebDAV in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

Download Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview absolutely free from here.

Also check out my next blog about WebDAV Access Control Protocol(RFC 3744) support in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0.

Overview

WebDAV stands for "Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning". It is a set of extensions to the HTTP protocol which allows users to collaboratively edit and manage files on remote web servers. Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 conforms to WebDAV protocol as defined by the RFC 2518 and the WebDAV Access Control Protocol specification as defined by the RFC 3744.
In this article I will describe how to configure WebDAV in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 via Administration CLI.

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Configuring Reverse Proxy in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview

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Configuring Reverse Proxy in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview

Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview is now avaliable for FREE and can be downloaded from here.

Introduction

A reverse proxy is a proxy that appears to be a web server (origin server) to clients but in reality forwards the requests it receives to one or more origin servers. Because a reverse proxy presents itself as an origin server, clients do not need to be configured to use a reverse proxy. By configuring a given reverse proxy to forward requests to multiple similarly configured origin servers, a reverse proxy can operate as an application level software load balancer. In a typical deployment one or more reverse proxies will be deployed between the browsers and the origin servers.
In this article I will descirbe how to configure reverse proxy in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 via Administration CLI.
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Access Control In Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 - II

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Access Control In Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 -II

After my first blog about Access Control in general, let me try to talk about some more ACL related topics.

Access Rights in Access Control Lists in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

Access rights that can be used to set access control in ACL file in Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 are

• all
• read
• execute
• info
• write
• list
• delete
• http_<method>
• dav:read-acl
• dav:read-current-user-privilege-set

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Access Control In Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

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Access Control In Sun Java System Web Server 7.0

Sun Java System Web Server 7.0 Technology Preview is released and is FREE download it from here.

What Is Access Control?

Access control allows us to determine and manage

We can allow or deny access based on:

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