Current WebDAV support in Zope provides for the correct handling of HTTP
GET, HEAD, POST, PUT, DELETE, OPTIONS, TRACE, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, MKCOL,
COPY and MOVE methods, as appropriate for the object that is the target
of the operation. Objects which do not support a given operation should
respond appropriately with a "405 Method Not Allowed" response.
Note that the ability of a Zope installation to support WebDAV HTTP methods
depends on the willingness of the web server to defer handling of those
methods to the Zope process. In most cases, servers will allow the process
to handle any request, so the Zope portion of your url namespace may well
be able to handle WebDAV operations even though your web server software
is not WebDAV-aware itself. Zope installations which use bundled server
implementations such as ZopeHTTPServer or ZServer should fully support
WebDAV functions.
References:
[WebDAV] Y. Y. Goland, E. J. Whitehead, Jr., A. Faizi, S. R. Carter, D.
Jensen, "HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring - WebDAV." RFC 2518.
Microsoft, U.C. Irvine, Netscape, Novell. February, 1999.