WebDAV is an acronym for Web-based Distributed Authoring and Version-
ing. Usually http is a read only protocol, but if you install DAV on
your web server, it becomes writable. Furthermore, if you use DAVfs,
you can mount your web server onto your filesystem and can use it as a
normal disk.

lrwxrwxrwx    1 root    root               23 jui 16  2003 /sbin/mount.davfs -> ../usr/sbin/mount.davfs
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root           137336 jui 16  2003 /usr/sbin/davfsd
-rwxr-xr-x    1 root    root            29152 jui 16  2003 /usr/sbin/mount.davfs
drwxr-xr-x    2 root    root                0 jui 16  2003 /usr/share/doc/davfs-0.2.4
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root              934 fév 14  2002 /usr/share/doc/davfs-0.2.4/ChangeLog.gz
-rw-r--r--    1 root    root             7349 oct 22  2001 /usr/share/doc/davfs-0.2.4/HOWTO.html