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プロジェクトの歴史

The underlying protocol is older than the package: WebDAV was standardized as HTTP extensions for distributed authoring, with RFC 2518 published in 1999 and RFC 4918 replacing it in 2007 after interoperability experience. That background explains why a small modern server can interoperate with many clients, file managers, sync tools, and applications that already understand WebDAV.

Henrique Dias created the public hacdias/webdav repository in August 2017. The README presents the project as a simple standalone WebDAV server, installable from binary releases, from source with the Go toolchain, or through Homebrew.

採用の歴史

The project found an audience in self-hosting and local-network workflows where a full groupware server or cloud storage stack is too much. Its GitHub repository had more than 5,000 stars by July 2026, a strong signal for a small protocol server.

Because WebDAV remains a compatibility layer used by editors, file managers, note tools, and single-file web apps, hacdias/webdav is often adopted as glue: it lets an ordinary directory become a remote-save target without deploying a larger service.

使われ方

Typical usage is to write a YAML configuration that names the address, filesystem scope, users, permissions, and optional TLS/CORS behavior, then run the `webdav` server in front of the desired directory. Users connect with WebDAV-capable clients rather than with a custom application protocol.

The package is particularly useful for quick private file serving, development tests against a WebDAV endpoint, self-hosted syncing experiments, and applications that know how to save to a WebDAV URL.

パッケージ好きにとっての重要性

The package is significant because it gives a standards-era protocol a small contemporary binary. In packaging terms, it is the opposite of a platform: one command, one config file, and a well-known HTTP extension surface that other tools already know how to speak.

タイムライン

• 1999: RFC 2518 standardized early WebDAV HTTP extensions.
• 2007: RFC 4918 replaced RFC 2518 as the main WebDAV distributed-authoring protocol specification.
• 2017-08: The hacdias/webdav repository was created.
• 2026: The project was still seeing signed GitHub releases in the v5 series.

Related projects

• Related software includes Apache mod_dav, nginx WebDAV modules, SabreDAV, rclone serve webdav, Nextcloud/WebDAV endpoints, and filebrowser, another prominent Henrique Dias self-hosted file-management project.

ソース

• https://api.github.com/repos/hacdias/webdav
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2518
• https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc4918
• https://github.com/hacdias/webdav
• https://github.com/hacdias/webdav/releases