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| [6764](rfc6764.txt) | Locating Services for CalDAV and CardDAV | The `/.well-known/carddav` bootstrap and its redirect |
| [5397](rfc5397.txt) | WebDAV Current Principal Extension | `current-user-principal` |
| [3253](rfc3253.txt) | Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (DeltaV) | `supported-report-set` only; no versioning is implemented |
+| [3744](rfc3744.txt) | WebDAV Access Control Protocol | `current-user-privilege-set` and the privilege names in it; no ACL is implemented |
| [2426](rfc2426.txt) | vCard 3.0 | The card format itself; the version Apple clients speak |
| [6350](rfc6350.txt) | vCard 4.0 | Nothing here implements it; kept for comparison |
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+Network Working Group G. Clemm
+Request for Comments: 3744 IBM
+Category: Standards Track J. Reschke
+ greenbytes
+ E. Sedlar
+ Oracle Corporation
+ J. Whitehead
+ U.C. Santa Cruz
+ May 2004
+
+
+ Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
+ Access Control Protocol
+
+Status of this Memo
+
+ This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for the
+ Internet community, and requests discussion and suggestions for
+ improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the "Internet
+ Official Protocol Standards" (STD 1) for the standardization state
+ and status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.
+
+Copyright Notice
+
+ Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2004). All Rights Reserved.
+
+Abstract
+
+ This document specifies a set of methods, headers, message bodies,
+ properties, and reports that define Access Control extensions to the
+ WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol. This protocol permits a
+ client to read and modify access control lists that instruct a server
+ whether to allow or deny operations upon a resource (such as
+ HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) method invocations) by a given
+ principal. A lightweight representation of principals as Web
+ resources supports integration of a wide range of user management
+ repositories. Search operations allow discovery and manipulation of
+ principals using human names.
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+Table of Contents
+
+ 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
+ 1.1. Terms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
+ 1.2. Notational Conventions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
+ 2. Principals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
+ 3. Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
+ 3.1. DAV:read Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
+ 3.2. DAV:write Privilege. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
+ 3.3. DAV:write-properties Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
+ 3.4. DAV:write-content Privilege. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
+ 3.5. DAV:unlock Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
+ 3.6. DAV:read-acl Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
+ 3.7. DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set Privilege. . . . . . 12
+ 3.8. DAV:write-acl Privilege. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 3.9. DAV:bind Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 3.10. DAV:unbind Privilege . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
+ 3.11. DAV:all Privilege. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
+ 3.12. Aggregation of Predefined Privileges . . . . . . . . . . 13
+ 4. Principal Properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
+ 4.1. DAV:alternate-URI-set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
+ 4.2. DAV:principal-URL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
+ 4.3. DAV:group-member-set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
+ 4.4. DAV:group-membership . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
+ 5. Access Control Properties. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
+ 5.1. DAV:owner. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
+ 5.1.1. Example: Retrieving DAV:owner . . . . . . . . . . 15
+ 5.1.2. Example: An Attempt to Set DAV:owner. . . . . . . 16
+ 5.2. DAV:group. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
+ 5.3. DAV:supported-privilege-set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
+ 5.3.1. Example: Retrieving a List of Privileges
+ Supported on a Resource . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
+ 5.4. DAV:current-user-privilege-set . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
+ 5.4.1. Example: Retrieving the User's Current Set of
+ Assigned Privileges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
+ 5.5. DAV:acl. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
+ 5.5.1. ACE Principal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
+ 5.5.2. ACE Grant and Deny. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
+ 5.5.3. ACE Protection. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
+ 5.5.4. ACE Inheritance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
+ 5.5.5. Example: Retrieving a Resource's Access Control
+ List. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
+ 5.6. DAV:acl-restrictions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
+ 5.6.1. DAV:grant-only. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
+ 5.6.2. DAV:no-invert ACE Constraint. . . . . . . . . . . 28
+ 5.6.3. DAV:deny-before-grant . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
+ 5.6.4. Required Principals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
+ 5.6.5. Example: Retrieving DAV:acl-restrictions. . . . . 28
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+ 5.7. DAV:inherited-acl-set. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
+ 5.8. DAV:principal-collection-set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
+ 5.8.1. Example: Retrieving DAV:principal-collection-set. 30
+ 5.9. Example: PROPFIND to retrieve access control properties. 32
+ 6. ACL Evaluation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
+ 7. Access Control and existing methods. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
+ 7.1. Any HTTP method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
+ 7.1.1. Error Handling. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
+ 7.2. OPTIONS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
+ 7.2.1. Example - OPTIONS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
+ 7.3. MOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
+ 7.4. COPY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
+ 7.5. LOCK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
+ 8. Access Control Methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
+ 8.1. ACL. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
+ 8.1.1. ACL Preconditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
+ 8.1.2. Example: the ACL method . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
+ 8.1.3. Example: ACL method failure due to protected
+ ACE conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
+ 8.1.4. Example: ACL method failure due to an
+ inherited ACE conflict. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
+ 8.1.5. Example: ACL method failure due to an attempt
+ to set grant and deny in a single ACE . . . . . . 45
+ 9. Access Control Reports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
+ 9.1. REPORT Method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
+ 9.2. DAV:acl-principal-prop-set Report. . . . . . . . . . . . 47
+ 9.2.1. Example: DAV:acl-principal-prop-set Report. . . . 48
+ 9.3. DAV:principal-match REPORT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
+ 9.3.1. Example: DAV:principal-match REPORT . . . . . . . 50
+ 9.4. DAV:principal-property-search REPORT . . . . . . . . . . 51
+ 9.4.1. Matching. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
+ 9.4.2. Example: successful DAV:principal-property-search
+ REPORT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
+ 9.5. DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT . . . . . . . . 56
+ 9.5.1. Example: DAV:principal-search-property-set
+ REPORT. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
+ 10. XML Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
+ 11. Internationalization Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
+ 12. Security Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
+ 12.1. Increased Risk of Compromised Users. . . . . . . . . . . 60
+ 12.2. Risks of the DAV:read-acl and
+ DAV:current-user-privilege-set Privileges. . . . . . . . 60
+ 12.3. No Foreknowledge of Initial ACL. . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
+ 13. Authentication . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
+ 14. IANA Considerations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
+ 15. Acknowledgements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
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+ 16. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
+ 16.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
+ 16.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
+ Appendices
+ A. WebDAV XML Document Type Definition Addendum . . . . . . . . . 64
+ B. WebDAV Method Privilege Table (Normative). . . . . . . . . . . 67
+ Index. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
+ Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
+ Full Copyright Statement. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
+
+1. Introduction
+
+ The goal of the WebDAV access control extensions is to provide an
+ interoperable mechanism for handling discretionary access control for
+ content and metadata managed by WebDAV servers. WebDAV access
+ control can be implemented on content repositories with security as
+ simple as that of a UNIX file system, as well as more sophisticated
+ models. The underlying principle of access control is that who you
+ are determines what operations you can perform on a resource. The
+ "who you are" is defined by a "principal" identifier; users, client
+ software, servers, and groups of the previous have principal
+ identifiers. The "operations you can perform" are determined by a
+ single "access control list" (ACL) associated with a resource. An
+ ACL contains a set of "access control entries" (ACEs), where each ACE
+ specifies a principal and a set of privileges that are either granted
+ or denied to that principal. When a principal submits an operation
+ (such as an HTTP or WebDAV method) to a resource for execution, the
+ server evaluates the ACEs in the ACL to determine if the principal
+ has permission for that operation.
+
+ Since every ACE contains the identifier of a principal, client
+ software operated by a human must provide a mechanism for selecting
+ this principal. This specification uses http(s) scheme URLs to
+ identify principals, which are represented as WebDAV-capable
+ resources. There is no guarantee that the URLs identifying
+ principals will be meaningful to a human. For example,
+ http://www.example.com/u/256432 and
+ http://www.example.com/people/Greg.Stein are both valid URLs that
+ could be used to identify the same principal. To remedy this, every
+ principal resource has the DAV:displayname property containing a
+ human-readable name for the principal.
+
+ Since a principal can be identified by multiple URLs, it raises the
+ problem of determining exactly which principal is being referenced in
+ a given ACE. It is impossible for a client to determine that an ACE
+ granting the read privilege to http://www.example.com/people/
+ Greg.Stein also affects the principal at http://www.example.com/u/
+ 256432. That is, a client has no mechanism for determining that two
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+ URLs identify the same principal resource. As a result, this
+ specification requires clients to use just one of the many possible
+ URLs for a principal when creating ACEs. A client can discover which
+ URL to use by retrieving the DAV:principal-URL property (Section 4.2)
+ from a principal resource. No matter which of the principal's URLs
+ is used with PROPFIND, the property always returns the same URL.
+
+ With a system having hundreds to thousands of principals, the problem
+ arises of how to allow a human operator of client software to select
+ just one of these principals. One approach is to use broad
+ collection hierarchies to spread the principals over a large number
+ of collections, yielding few principals per collection. An example
+ of this is a two level hierarchy with the first level containing 36
+ collections (a-z, 0-9), and the second level being another 36,
+ creating collections /a/a/, /a/b/, ..., /a/z/, such that a principal
+ with last name "Stein" would appear at /s/t/Stein. In effect, this
+ pre-computes a common query, search on last name, and encodes it into
+ a hierarchy. The drawback with this scheme is that it handles only a
+ small set of predefined queries, and drilling down through the
+ collection hierarchy adds unnecessary steps (navigate down/up) when
+ the user already knows the principal's name. While organizing
+ principal URLs into a hierarchy is a valid namespace organization,
+ users should not be forced to navigate this hierarchy to select a
+ principal.
+
+ This specification provides the capability to perform substring
+ searches over a small set of properties on the resources representing
+ principals. This permits searches based on last name, first name,
+ user name, job title, etc. Two separate searches are supported, both
+ via the REPORT method, one to search principal resources
+ (DAV:principal-property-search, Section 9.4), the other to determine
+ which properties may be searched at all (DAV:principal-search-
+ property-set, Section 9.5).
+
+ Once a principal has been identified in an ACE, a server evaluating
+ that ACE must know the identity of the principal making a protocol
+ request, and must validate that that principal is who they claim to
+ be, a process known as authentication. This specification
+ intentionally omits discussion of authentication, as the HTTP
+ protocol already has a number of authentication mechanisms [RFC2617].
+ Some authentication mechanism (such as HTTP Digest Authentication,
+ which all WebDAV compliant implementations are required to support)
+ must be available to validate the identity of a principal.
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+ The following issues are out of scope for this document:
+
+ o Access control that applies only to a particular property on a
+ resource (excepting the access control properties DAV:acl and
+ DAV:current-user-privilege-set), rather than the entire resource,
+
+ o Role-based security (where a role can be seen as a dynamically
+ defined group of principals),
+
+ o Specification of the ways an ACL on a resource is initialized,
+
+ o Specification of an ACL that applies globally to all resources,
+ rather than to a particular resource.
+
+ o Creation and maintenance of resources representing people or
+ computational agents (principals), and groups of these.
+
+ This specification is organized as follows. Section 1.1 defines key
+ concepts used throughout the specification, and is followed by a more
+ in-depth discussion of principals (Section 2), and privileges
+ (Section 3). Properties defined on principals are specified in
+ Section 4, and access control properties for content resources are
+ specified in Section 5. The ways ACLs are to be evaluated is
+ described in Section 6. Client discovery of access control
+ capability using OPTIONS is described in Section 7.2. Interactions
+ between access control functionality and existing HTTP and WebDAV
+ methods are described in the remainder of Section 7. The access
+ control setting method, ACL, is specified in Section 8. Four reports
+ that provide limited server-side searching capabilities are described
+ in Section 9. Sections on XML processing (Section 10),
+ Internationalization considerations (Section 11), security
+ considerations (Section 12), and authentication (Section 13) round
+ out the specification. An appendix (Appendix A) provides an XML
+ Document Type Definition (DTD) for the XML elements defined in the
+ specification.
+
+1.1. Terms
+
+ This document uses the terms defined in HTTP [RFC2616] and WebDAV
+ [RFC2518]. In addition, the following terms are defined:
+
+ principal
+
+ A "principal" is a distinct human or computational actor that
+ initiates access to network resources. In this protocol, a
+ principal is an HTTP resource that represents such an actor.
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+ A "group" is a principal that represents a set of other
+ principals.
+
+ privilege
+
+ A "privilege" controls access to a particular set of HTTP
+ operations on a resource.
+
+ aggregate privilege
+
+ An "aggregate privilege" is a privilege that contains a set of
+ other privileges.
+
+ abstract privilege
+
+ The modifier "abstract", when applied to a privilege on a
+ resource, means the privilege cannot be set in an access control
+ element (ACE) on that resource.
+
+ access control list (ACL)
+
+ An "ACL" is a list of access control elements that define access
+ control to a particular resource.
+
+ access control element (ACE)
+
+ An "ACE" either grants or denies a particular set of (non-
+ abstract) privileges for a particular principal.
+
+ inherited ACE
+
+ An "inherited ACE" is an ACE that is dynamically shared from the
+ ACL of another resource. When a shared ACE changes on the primary
+ resource, it is also changed on inheriting resources.
+
+ protected property
+
+ A "protected property" is one whose value cannot be updated except
+ by a method explicitly defined as updating that specific property.
+ In particular, a protected property cannot be updated with a
+ PROPPATCH request.
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+
+ The augmented BNF used by this document to describe protocol elements
+ is described in Section 2.1 of [RFC2616]. Because this augmented BNF
+ uses the basic production rules provided in Section 2.2 of [RFC2616],
+ those rules apply to this document as well.
+
+ The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
+ "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
+ document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
+
+ Definitions of XML elements in this document use XML element type
+ declarations (as found in XML Document Type Declarations), described
+ in Section 3.2 of [REC-XML]. When an XML element type in the "DAV:"
+ namespace is referenced in this document outside of the context of an
+ XML fragment, the string "DAV:" will be prefixed to the element name.
+
+2. Principals
+
+ A principal is a network resource that represents a distinct human or
+ computational actor that initiates access to network resources.
+ Users and groups are represented as principals in many
+ implementations; other types of principals are also possible. A URI
+ of any scheme MAY be used to identify a principal resource. However,
+ servers implementing this specification MUST expose principal
+ resources at an http(s) URL, which is a privileged scheme that points
+ to resources that have additional properties, as described in Section
+ 4. So, a principal resource can have multiple URIs, one of which has
+ to be an http(s) scheme URL. Although an implementation SHOULD
+ support PROPFIND and MAY support PROPPATCH to access and modify
+ information about a principal, it is not required to do so.
+
+ A principal resource may be a group, where a group is a principal
+ that represents a set of other principals, called the members of the
+ group. If a person or computational agent matches a principal
+ resource that is a member of a group, they also match the group.
+ Membership in a group is recursive, so if a principal is a member of
+ group GRPA, and GRPA is a member of group GRPB, then the principal is
+ also a member of GRPB.
+
+3. Privileges
+
+ Ability to perform a given method on a resource MUST be controlled by
+ one or more privileges. Authors of protocol extensions that define
+ new HTTP methods SHOULD specify which privileges (by defining new
+ privileges, or mapping to ones below) are required to perform the
+ method. A principal with no privileges to a resource MUST be denied
+ any HTTP access to that resource, unless the principal matches an ACE
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+ constructed using the DAV:all, DAV:authenticated, or
+ DAV:unauthenticated pseudo-principals (see Section 5.5.1). Servers
+ MUST report a 403 "Forbidden" error if access is denied, except in
+ the case where the privilege restricts the ability to know the
+ resource exists, in which case 404 "Not Found" may be returned.
+
+ Privileges may be containers of other privileges, in which case they
+ are termed "aggregate privileges". If a principal is granted or
+ denied an aggregate privilege, it is semantically equivalent to
+ granting or denying each of the aggregated privileges individually.
+ For example, an implementation may define add-member and remove-
+ member privileges that control the ability to add and remove a member
+ of a group. Since these privileges control the ability to update the
+ state of a group, these privileges would be aggregated by the
+ DAV:write privilege on a group, and granting the DAV:write privilege
+ on a group would also grant the add-member and remove-member
+ privileges.
+
+ Privileges may be declared to be "abstract" for a given resource, in
+ which case they cannot be set in an ACE on that resource. Aggregate
+ and non-aggregate privileges are both capable of being abstract.
+ Abstract privileges are useful for modeling privileges that otherwise
+ would not be exposed via the protocol. Abstract privileges also
+ provide server implementations with flexibility in implementing the
+ privileges defined in this specification. For example, if a server
+ is incapable of separating the read resource capability from the read
+ ACL capability, it can still model the DAV:read and DAV:read-acl
+ privileges defined in this specification by declaring them abstract,
+ and containing them within a non-abstract aggregate privilege (say,
+ read-all) that holds DAV:read, and DAV:read-acl. In this way, it is
+ possible to set the aggregate privilege, read-all, thus coupling the
+ setting of DAV:read and DAV:read-acl, but it is not possible to set
+ DAV:read, or DAV:read-acl individually. Since aggregate privileges
+ can be abstract, it is also possible to use abstract privileges to
+ group or organize non-abstract privileges. Privilege containment
+ loops are not allowed; therefore, a privilege MUST NOT contain
+ itself. For example, DAV:read cannot contain DAV:read.
+
+ The set of privileges that apply to a particular resource may vary
+ with the DAV:resourcetype of the resource, as well as between
+ different server implementations. To promote interoperability,
+ however, this specification defines a set of well-known privileges
+ (e.g., DAV:read, DAV:write, DAV:read-acl, DAV:write-acl, DAV:read-
+ current-user-privilege-set, and DAV:all), which can at least be used
+ to classify the other privileges defined on a particular resource.
+ The access permissions on null resources (defined in [RFC2518],
+ Section 3) are solely those they inherit (if any), and they are not
+ discoverable (i.e., the access control properties specified in
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+ Section 5 are not defined on null resources). On the transition from
+ null to stateful resource, the initial access control list is set by
+ the server's default ACL value policy (if any).
+
+ Server implementations MAY define new privileges beyond those defined
+ in this specification. Privileges defined by individual
+ implementations MUST NOT use the DAV: namespace, and instead should
+ use a namespace that they control, such as an http scheme URL.
+
+3.1. DAV:read Privilege
+
+ The read privilege controls methods that return information about the
+ state of the resource, including the resource's properties. Affected
+ methods include GET and PROPFIND. Any implementation-defined
+ privilege that also controls access to GET and PROPFIND must be
+ aggregated under DAV:read - if an ACL grants access to DAV:read, the
+ client may expect that no other privilege needs to be granted to have
+ access to GET and PROPFIND. Additionally, the read privilege MUST
+ control the OPTIONS method.
+
+ <!ELEMENT read EMPTY>
+
+3.2. DAV:write Privilege
+
+ The write privilege controls methods that lock a resource or modify
+ the content, dead properties, or (in the case of a collection)
+ membership of the resource, such as PUT and PROPPATCH. Note that
+ state modification is also controlled via locking (see section 5.3 of
+ [RFC2518]), so effective write access requires that both write
+ privileges and write locking requirements are satisfied. Any
+ implementation-defined privilege that also controls access to methods
+ modifying content, dead properties or collection membership must be
+ aggregated under DAV:write, e.g., if an ACL grants access to
+ DAV:write, the client may expect that no other privilege needs to be
+ granted to have access to PUT and PROPPATCH.
+
+ <!ELEMENT write EMPTY>
+
+3.3. DAV:write-properties Privilege
+
+ The DAV:write-properties privilege controls methods that modify the
+ dead properties of the resource, such as PROPPATCH. Whether this
+ privilege may be used to control access to any live properties is
+ determined by the implementation. Any implementation-defined
+ privilege that also controls access to methods modifying dead
+ properties must be aggregated under DAV:write-properties - e.g., if
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ an ACL grants access to DAV:write-properties, the client can safely
+ expect that no other privilege needs to be granted to have access to
+ PROPPATCH.
+
+ <!ELEMENT write-properties EMPTY>
+
+3.4. DAV:write-content Privilege
+
+ The DAV:write-content privilege controls methods that modify the
+ content of an existing resource, such as PUT. Any implementation-
+ defined privilege that also controls access to content must be
+ aggregated under DAV:write-content - e.g., if an ACL grants access to
+ DAV:write-content, the client can safely expect that no other
+ privilege needs to be granted to have access to PUT. Note that PUT -
+ when applied to an unmapped URI - creates a new resource and
+ therefore is controlled by the DAV:bind privilege on the parent
+ collection.
+
+ <!ELEMENT write-content EMPTY>
+
+3.5. DAV:unlock Privilege
+
+ The DAV:unlock privilege controls the use of the UNLOCK method by a
+ principal other than the lock owner (the principal that created a
+ lock can always perform an UNLOCK). While the set of users who may
+ lock a resource is most commonly the same set of users who may modify
+ a resource, servers may allow various kinds of administrators to
+ unlock resources locked by others. Any privilege controlling access
+ by non-lock owners to UNLOCK MUST be aggregated under DAV:unlock.
+
+ A lock owner can always remove a lock by issuing an UNLOCK with the
+ correct lock token and authentication credentials. That is, even if
+ a principal does not have DAV:unlock privilege, they can still remove
+ locks they own. Principals other than the lock owner can remove a
+ lock only if they have DAV:unlock privilege and they issue an UNLOCK
+ with the correct lock token. Lock timeout is not affected by the
+ DAV:unlock privilege.
+
+ <!ELEMENT unlock EMPTY>
+
+3.6. DAV:read-acl Privilege
+
+ The DAV:read-acl privilege controls the use of PROPFIND to retrieve
+ the DAV:acl property of the resource.
+
+ <!ELEMENT read-acl EMPTY>
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+3.7. DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set Privilege
+
+ The DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set privilege controls the use of
+ PROPFIND to retrieve the DAV:current-user-privilege-set property of
+ the resource.
+
+ Clients are intended to use this property to visually indicate in
+ their UI items that are dependent on the permissions of a resource,
+ for example, by graying out resources that are not writable.
+
+ This privilege is separate from DAV:read-acl because there is a need
+ to allow most users access to the privileges permitted the current
+ user (due to its use in creating the UI), while the full ACL contains
+ information that may not be appropriate for the current authenticated
+ user. As a result, the set of users who can view the full ACL is
+ expected to be much smaller than those who can read the current user
+ privilege set, and hence distinct privileges are needed for each.
+
+ <!ELEMENT read-current-user-privilege-set EMPTY>
+
+3.8. DAV:write-acl Privilege
+
+ The DAV:write-acl privilege controls use of the ACL method to modify
+ the DAV:acl property of the resource.
+
+ <!ELEMENT write-acl EMPTY>
+
+3.9. DAV:bind Privilege
+
+ The DAV:bind privilege allows a method to add a new member URL to the
+ specified collection (for example via PUT or MKCOL). It is ignored
+ for resources that are not collections.
+
+ <!ELEMENT bind EMPTY>
+
+3.10. DAV:unbind Privilege
+
+ The DAV:unbind privilege allows a method to remove a member URL from
+ the specified collection (for example via DELETE or MOVE). It is
+ ignored for resources that are not collections.
+
+ <!ELEMENT unbind EMPTY>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+3.11. DAV:all Privilege
+
+ DAV:all is an aggregate privilege that contains the entire set of
+ privileges that can be applied to the resource.
+
+ <!ELEMENT all EMPTY>
+
+3.12. Aggregation of Predefined Privileges
+
+ Server implementations are free to aggregate the predefined
+ privileges (defined above in Sections 3.1-3.10) subject to the
+ following limitations:
+
+ DAV:read-acl MUST NOT contain DAV:read, DAV:write, DAV:write-acl,
+ DAV:write-properties, DAV:write-content, or DAV:read-current-user-
+ privilege-set.
+
+ DAV:write-acl MUST NOT contain DAV:write, DAV:read, DAV:read-acl, or
+ DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set.
+
+ DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set MUST NOT contain DAV:write,
+ DAV:read, DAV:read-acl, or DAV:write-acl.
+
+ DAV:write MUST NOT contain DAV:read, DAV:read-acl, or DAV:read-
+ current-user-privilege-set.
+
+ DAV:read MUST NOT contain DAV:write, DAV:write-acl, DAV:write-
+ properties, or DAV:write-content.
+
+ DAV:write MUST contain DAV:bind, DAV:unbind, DAV:write-properties and
+ DAV:write-content.
+
+4. Principal Properties
+
+ Principals are manifested to clients as a WebDAV resource, identified
+ by a URL. A principal MUST have a non-empty DAV:displayname property
+ (defined in Section 13.2 of [RFC2518]), and a DAV:resourcetype
+ property (defined in Section 13.9 of [RFC2518]). Additionally, a
+ principal MUST report the DAV:principal XML element in the value of
+ the DAV:resourcetype property. The element type declaration for
+ DAV:principal is:
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal EMPTY>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ This protocol defines the following additional properties for a
+ principal. Since it can be expensive for a server to retrieve access
+ control information, the name and value of these properties SHOULD
+ NOT be returned by a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section
+ 12.14.1 of [RFC2518]).
+
+4.1. DAV:alternate-URI-set
+
+ This protected property, if non-empty, contains the URIs of network
+ resources with additional descriptive information about the
+ principal. This property identifies additional network resources
+ (i.e., it contains one or more URIs) that may be consulted by a
+ client to gain additional knowledge concerning a principal. One
+ expected use for this property is the storage of an LDAP [RFC2255]
+ scheme URL. A user-agent encountering an LDAP URL could use LDAP
+ [RFC2251] to retrieve additional machine-readable directory
+ information about the principal, and display that information in its
+ user interface. Support for this property is REQUIRED, and the value
+ is empty if no alternate URI exists for the principal.
+
+ <!ELEMENT alternate-URI-set (href*)>
+
+4.2. DAV:principal-URL
+
+ A principal may have many URLs, but there must be one "principal URL"
+ that clients can use to uniquely identify a principal. This
+ protected property contains the URL that MUST be used to identify
+ this principal in an ACL request. Support for this property is
+ REQUIRED.
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-URL (href)>
+
+4.3. DAV:group-member-set
+
+ This property of a group principal identifies the principals that are
+ direct members of this group. Since a group may be a member of
+ another group, a group may also have indirect members (i.e., the
+ members of its direct members). A URL in the DAV:group-member-set
+ for a principal MUST be the DAV:principal-URL of that principal.
+
+ <!ELEMENT group-member-set (href*)>
+
+4.4. DAV:group-membership
+
+ This protected property identifies the groups in which the principal
+ is directly a member. Note that a server may allow a group to be a
+ member of another group, in which case the DAV:group-membership of
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ those other groups would need to be queried in order to determine the
+ groups in which the principal is indirectly a member. Support for
+ this property is REQUIRED.
+
+ <!ELEMENT group-membership (href*)>
+
+5. Access Control Properties
+
+ This specification defines a number of new properties for WebDAV
+ resources. Access control properties may be retrieved just like
+ other WebDAV properties, using the PROPFIND method. Since it is
+ expensive, for many servers, to retrieve access control information,
+ a PROPFIND allprop request (as defined in Section 12.14.1 of
+ [RFC2518]) SHOULD NOT return the names and values of the properties
+ defined in this section.
+
+ Access control properties (especially DAV:acl and DAV:inherited-acl-
+ set) are defined on the resource identified by the Request-URI of a
+ PROPFIND request. A direct consequence is that if the resource is
+ accessible via multiple URI, the value of access control properties
+ is the same across these URI.
+
+ HTTP resources that support the WebDAV Access Control Protocol MUST
+ contain the following properties. Null resources (described in
+ Section 3 of [RFC2518]) MUST NOT contain the following properties.
+
+5.1. DAV:owner
+
+ This property identifies a particular principal as being the "owner"
+ of the resource. Since the owner of a resource often has special
+ access control capabilities (e.g., the owner frequently has permanent
+ DAV:write-acl privilege), clients might display the resource owner in
+ their user interface.
+
+ Servers MAY implement DAV:owner as protected property and MAY return
+ an empty DAV:owner element as property value in case no owner
+ information is available.
+
+ <!ELEMENT owner (href?)>
+
+5.1.1. Example: Retrieving DAV:owner
+
+ This example shows a client request for the value of the DAV:owner
+ property from a collection resource with URL http://www.example.com/
+ papers/. The principal making the request is authenticated using
+ Digest authentication. The value of DAV:owner is the URL http://
+ www.example.com/acl/users/gstein, wrapped in the DAV:href XML
+ element.
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPFIND /papers/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="jim",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:owner/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:propfind>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/papers/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:owner>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/acl/users/gstein</D:href>
+ </D:owner>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+5.1.2. Example: An Attempt to Set DAV:owner
+
+ The following example shows a client request to modify the value of
+ the DAV:owner property on the resource with URL <http://
+ www.example.com/papers>. Since DAV:owner is a protected property on
+ this particular server, it responds with a 207 (Multi-Status)
+ response that contains a 403 (Forbidden) status code for the act of
+ setting DAV:owner. Section 8.2.1 of [RFC2518] describes PROPPATCH
+ status code information, Section 11 of [RFC2518] describes the
+
+
+
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+
+
+ Multi-Status response and Sections 1.6 and 3.12 of [RFC3253] describe
+ additional error marshaling for PROPPATCH attempts on protected
+ properties.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPPATCH /papers/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="jim",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:propertyupdate xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:set>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:owner>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/acl/users/jim</D:href>
+ </D:owner>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:set>
+ </D:propertyupdate>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/papers/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop><D:owner/></D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden</D:status>
+ <D:responsedescription>
+ <D:error><D:cannot-modify-protected-property/></D:error>
+ Failure to set protected property (DAV:owner)
+ </D:responsedescription>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+5.2. DAV:group
+
+ This property identifies a particular principal as being the "group"
+ of the resource. This property is commonly found on repositories
+ that implement the Unix privileges model.
+
+ Servers MAY implement DAV:group as protected property and MAY return
+ an empty DAV:group element as property value in case no group
+ information is available.
+
+ <!ELEMENT group (href?)>
+
+5.3. DAV:supported-privilege-set
+
+ This is a protected property that identifies the privileges defined
+ for the resource.
+
+ <!ELEMENT supported-privilege-set (supported-privilege*)>
+
+ Each privilege appears as an XML element, where aggregate privileges
+ list as sub-elements all of the privileges that they aggregate.
+
+ <!ELEMENT supported-privilege
+ (privilege, abstract?, description, supported-privilege*)>
+ <!ELEMENT privilege ANY>
+
+ An abstract privilege MUST NOT be used in an ACE for that resource.
+ Servers MUST fail an attempt to set an abstract privilege.
+
+ <!ELEMENT abstract EMPTY>
+
+ A description is a human-readable description of what this privilege
+ controls access to. Servers MUST indicate the human language of the
+ description using the xml:lang attribute and SHOULD consider the HTTP
+ Accept-Language request header when selecting one of multiple
+ available languages.
+
+ <!ELEMENT description #PCDATA>
+
+ It is envisioned that a WebDAV ACL-aware administrative client would
+ list the supported privileges in a dialog box, and allow the user to
+ choose non-abstract privileges to apply in an ACE. The privileges
+ tree is useful programmatically to map well-known privileges (defined
+ by WebDAV or other standards groups) into privileges that are
+ supported by any particular server implementation. The privilege
+ tree also serves to hide complexity in implementations allowing large
+ number of privileges to be defined by displaying aggregates to the
+ user.
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
+5.3.1. Example: Retrieving a List of Privileges Supported on a Resource
+
+ This example shows a client request for the DAV:supported-privilege-
+ set property on the resource http://www.example.com/papers/. The
+ value of the DAV:supported-privilege-set property is a tree of
+ supported privileges (using "[XML Namespace , localname]" to identify
+ each privilege):
+
+ [DAV:, all] (aggregate, abstract)
+ |
+ +-- [DAV:, read] (aggregate)
+ |
+ +-- [DAV:, read-acl] (abstract)
+ +-- [DAV:, read-current-user-privilege-set] (abstract)
+ |
+ +-- [DAV:, write] (aggregate)
+ |
+ +-- [DAV:, write-acl] (abstract)
+ +-- [DAV:, write-properties]
+ +-- [DAV:, write-content]
+ |
+ +-- [DAV:, unlock]
+
+ This privilege tree is not normative (except that it reflects the
+ normative aggregation rules given in Section 3.12), and many possible
+ privilege trees are possible.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPFIND /papers/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="gclemm",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:supported-privilege-set/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:propfind>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/papers/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:supported-privilege-set>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:all/></D:privilege>
+ <D:abstract/>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Any operation
+ </D:description>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Read any object
+ </D:description>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:read-acl/></D:privilege>
+ <D:abstract/>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">Read ACL</D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege>
+ <D:read-current-user-privilege-set/>
+ </D:privilege>
+ <D:abstract/>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Read current user privilege set property
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Write any object
+ </D:description>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write-acl/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+
+
+
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+
+
+ Write ACL
+ </D:description>
+ <D:abstract/>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write-properties/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Write properties
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write-content/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Write resource content
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:unlock/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Unlock resource
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ </D:supported-privilege-set>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+5.4. DAV:current-user-privilege-set
+
+ DAV:current-user-privilege-set is a protected property containing the
+ exact set of privileges (as computed by the server) granted to the
+ currently authenticated HTTP user. Aggregate privileges and their
+ contained privileges are listed. A user-agent can use the value of
+ this property to adjust its user interface to make actions
+ inaccessible (e.g., by graying out a menu item or button) for which
+ the current principal does not have permission. This property is
+ also useful for determining what operations the current principal can
+ perform, without having to actually execute an operation.
+
+ <!ELEMENT current-user-privilege-set (privilege*)>
+ <!ELEMENT privilege ANY>
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ If the current user is granted a specific privilege, that privilege
+ must belong to the set of privileges that may be set on this
+ resource. Therefore, each element in the DAV:current-user-
+ privilege-set property MUST identify a non-abstract privilege from
+ the DAV:supported-privilege-set property.
+
+5.4.1. Example: Retrieving the User's Current Set of Assigned
+ Privileges
+
+ Continuing the example from Section 5.3.1, this example shows a
+ client requesting the DAV:current-user-privilege-set property from
+ the resource with URL http://www.example.com/papers/. The username
+ of the principal making the request is "khare", and Digest
+ authentication is used in the request. The principal with username
+ "khare" has been granted the DAV:read privilege. Since the DAV:read
+ privilege contains the DAV:read-acl and DAV:read-current-user-
+ privilege-set privileges (see Section 5.3.1), the principal with
+ username "khare" can read the ACL property, and the DAV:current-
+ user-privilege-set property. However, the DAV:all, DAV:read-acl,
+ DAV:write-acl and DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set privileges are
+ not listed in the value of DAV:current-user-privilege-set, since (for
+ this example) they are abstract privileges. DAV:write is not listed
+ since the principal with username "khare" is not listed in an ACE
+ granting that principal write permission.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPFIND /papers/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="khare",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:current-user-privilege-set/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:propfind>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/papers/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:current-user-privilege-set>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ </D:current-user-privilege-set>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+5.5. DAV:acl
+
+ This is a protected property that specifies the list of access
+ control entries (ACEs), which define what principals are to get what
+ privileges for this resource.
+
+ <!ELEMENT acl (ace*) >
+
+ Each DAV:ace element specifies the set of privileges to be either
+ granted or denied to a single principal. If the DAV:acl property is
+ empty, no principal is granted any privilege.
+
+ <!ELEMENT ace ((principal | invert), (grant|deny), protected?,
+ inherited?)>
+
+5.5.1. ACE Principal
+
+ The DAV:principal element identifies the principal to which this ACE
+ applies.
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal (href | all | authenticated | unauthenticated
+ | property | self)>
+
+ The current user matches DAV:href only if that user is authenticated
+ as being (or being a member of) the principal identified by the URL
+ contained by that DAV:href.
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ The current user always matches DAV:all.
+
+ <!ELEMENT all EMPTY>
+
+ The current user matches DAV:authenticated only if authenticated.
+
+ <!ELEMENT authenticated EMPTY>
+
+ The current user matches DAV:unauthenticated only if not
+ authenticated.
+
+ <!ELEMENT unauthenticated EMPTY>
+
+ DAV:all is the union of DAV:authenticated, and DAV:unauthenticated.
+ For a given request, the user matches either DAV:authenticated, or
+ DAV:unauthenticated, but not both (that is, DAV:authenticated and
+ DAV:unauthenticated are disjoint sets).
+
+ The current user matches a DAV:property principal in a DAV:acl
+ property of a resource only if the value of the identified property
+ of that resource contains at most one DAV:href XML element, the URI
+ value of DAV:href identifies a principal, and the current user is
+ authenticated as being (or being a member of) that principal. For
+ example, if the DAV:property element contained <DAV:owner/>, the
+ current user would match the DAV:property principal only if the
+ current user is authenticated as matching the principal identified by
+ the DAV:owner property of the resource.
+
+ <!ELEMENT property ANY>
+
+ The current user matches DAV:self in a DAV:acl property of the
+ resource only if that resource is a principal and that principal
+ matches the current user or, if the principal is a group, a member of
+ that group matches the current user.
+
+ <!ELEMENT self EMPTY>
+
+ Some servers may support ACEs applying to those users NOT matching
+ the current principal, e.g., all users not in a particular group.
+ This can be done by wrapping the DAV:principal element with
+ DAV:invert.
+
+ <!ELEMENT invert principal>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+5.5.2. ACE Grant and Deny
+
+ Each DAV:grant or DAV:deny element specifies the set of privileges to
+ be either granted or denied to the specified principal. A DAV:grant
+ or DAV:deny element of the DAV:acl of a resource MUST only contain
+ non-abstract elements specified in the DAV:supported-privilege-set of
+ that resource.
+
+ <!ELEMENT grant (privilege+)>
+ <!ELEMENT deny (privilege+)>
+ <!ELEMENT privilege ANY>
+
+5.5.3. ACE Protection
+
+ A server indicates an ACE is protected by including the DAV:protected
+ element in the ACE. If the ACL of a resource contains an ACE with a
+ DAV:protected element, an attempt to remove that ACE from the ACL
+ MUST fail.
+
+ <!ELEMENT protected EMPTY>
+
+5.5.4. ACE Inheritance
+
+ The presence of a DAV:inherited element indicates that this ACE is
+ inherited from another resource that is identified by the URL
+ contained in a DAV:href element. An inherited ACE cannot be modified
+ directly, but instead the ACL on the resource from which it is
+ inherited must be modified.
+
+ Note that ACE inheritance is not the same as ACL initialization. ACL
+ initialization defines the ACL that a newly created resource will use
+ (if not specified). ACE inheritance refers to an ACE that is
+ logically shared - where an update to the resource containing an ACE
+ will affect the ACE of each resource that inherits that ACE. The
+ method by which ACLs are initialized or by which ACEs are inherited
+ is not defined by this document.
+
+ <!ELEMENT inherited (href)>
+
+5.5.5. Example: Retrieving a Resource's Access Control List
+
+ Continuing the example from Sections 5.3.1 and 5.4.1, this example
+ shows a client requesting the DAV:acl property from the resource with
+ URL http://www.example.com/papers/. There are two ACEs defined in
+ this ACL:
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ ACE #1: The group identified by URL http://www.example.com/acl/
+ groups/maintainers (the group of site maintainers) is granted
+ DAV:write privilege. Since (for this example) DAV:write contains the
+ DAV:write-acl privilege (see Section 5.3.1), this means the
+ "maintainers" group can also modify the access control list.
+
+ ACE #2: All principals (DAV:all) are granted the DAV:read privilege.
+ Since (for this example) DAV:read contains DAV:read-acl and
+ DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set, this means all users (including
+ all members of the "maintainers" group) can read the DAV:acl property
+ and the DAV:current-user-privilege-set property.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPFIND /papers/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="masinter",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:acl/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:propfind>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/papers/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:acl>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:href
+ >http://www.example.com/acl/groups/maintainers</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:write/></D:privilege>
+
+
+
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+
+
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:all/>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ </D:acl>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+5.6. DAV:acl-restrictions
+
+ This protected property defines the types of ACLs supported by this
+ server, to avoid clients needlessly getting errors. When a client
+ tries to set an ACL via the ACL method, the server may reject the
+ attempt to set the ACL as specified. The following properties
+ indicate the restrictions the client must observe before setting an
+ ACL:
+
+ <grant-only> Deny ACEs are not supported
+
+ <no-invert> Inverted ACEs are not supported
+
+ <deny-before-grant> All deny ACEs must occur before any grant ACEs
+
+ <required-principal> Indicates which principals are required to be
+ present
+
+
+ <!ELEMENT acl-restrictions (grant-only?, no-invert?,
+ deny-before-grant?,
+ required-principal?)>
+
+5.6.1. DAV:grant-only
+
+ This element indicates that ACEs with deny clauses are not allowed.
+
+ <!ELEMENT grant-only EMPTY>
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+5.6.2. DAV:no-invert ACE Constraint
+
+ This element indicates that ACEs with the <invert> element are not
+ allowed.
+
+ <!ELEMENT no-invert EMPTY>
+
+5.6.3. DAV:deny-before-grant
+
+ This element indicates that all deny ACEs must precede all grant
+ ACEs.
+
+ <!ELEMENT deny-before-grant EMPTY>
+
+5.6.4. Required Principals
+
+ The required principal elements identify which principals must have
+ an ACE defined in the ACL.
+
+ <!ELEMENT required-principal
+ (all? | authenticated? | unauthenticated? | self? | href* |
+ property*)>
+
+ For example, the following element requires that the ACL contain a
+
+ DAV:owner property ACE:
+
+ <D:required-principal xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:property><D:owner/></D:property>
+ </D:required-principal>
+
+5.6.5. Example: Retrieving DAV:acl-restrictions
+
+ In this example, the client requests the value of the DAV:acl-
+ restrictions property. Digest authentication provides credentials
+ for the principal operating the client.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPFIND /papers/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="srcarter",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:acl-restrictions/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:propfind>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/papers/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:acl-restrictions>
+ <D:grant-only/>
+ <D:required-principal>
+ <D:all/>
+ </D:required-principal>
+ </D:acl-restrictions>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+5.7. DAV:inherited-acl-set
+
+ This protected property contains a set of URLs that identify other
+ resources that also control the access to this resource. To have a
+ privilege on a resource, not only must the ACL on that resource
+ (specified in the DAV:acl property of that resource) grant the
+ privilege, but so must the ACL of each resource identified in the
+ DAV:inherited-acl-set property of that resource. Effectively, the
+ privileges granted by the current ACL are ANDed with the privileges
+ granted by each inherited ACL.
+
+ <!ELEMENT inherited-acl-set (href*)>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+5.8. DAV:principal-collection-set
+
+ This protected property of a resource contains a set of URLs that
+ identify the root collections that contain the principals that are
+ available on the server that implements this resource. A WebDAV
+ Access Control Protocol user agent could use the contents of
+ DAV:principal-collection-set to retrieve the DAV:displayname property
+ (specified in Section 13.2 of [RFC2518]) of all principals on that
+ server, thereby yielding human-readable names for each principal that
+ could be displayed in a user interface.
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-collection-set (href*)>
+
+ Since different servers can control different parts of the URL
+ namespace, different resources on the same host MAY have different
+ DAV:principal-collection-set values. The collections specified in
+ the DAV:principal-collection-set MAY be located on different hosts
+ from the resource. The URLs in DAV:principal-collection-set SHOULD be
+ http or https scheme URLs. For security and scalability reasons, a
+ server MAY report only a subset of the entire set of known principal
+ collections, and therefore clients should not assume they have
+ retrieved an exhaustive listing. Additionally, a server MAY elect to
+ report none of the principal collections it knows about, in which
+ case the property value would be empty.
+
+ The value of DAV:principal-collection-set gives the scope of the
+ DAV:principal-property-search REPORT (defined in Section 9.4).
+ Clients use the DAV:principal-property-search REPORT to populate
+ their user interface with a list of principals. Therefore, servers
+ that limit a client's ability to obtain principal information will
+ interfere with the client's ability to manipulate access control
+ lists, due to the difficulty of getting the URL of a principal for
+ use in an ACE.
+
+5.8.1. Example: Retrieving DAV:principal-collection-set
+
+ In this example, the client requests the value of the DAV:principal-
+ collection-set property on the collection resource identified by URL
+ http://www.example.com/papers/. The property contains the two URLs,
+ http://www.example.com/acl/users/ and http://
+ www.example.com/acl/groups/, both wrapped in DAV:href XML elements.
+ Digest authentication provides credentials for the principal
+ operating the client.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ The client might reasonably follow this request with two separate
+ PROPFIND requests to retrieve the DAV:displayname property of the
+ members of the two collections (/acl/users and /acl/groups). This
+ information could be used when displaying a user interface for
+ creating access control entries.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPFIND /papers/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="yarong",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:principal-collection-set/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:propfind>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/papers/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:principal-collection-set>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/acl/users/</D:href>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/acl/groups/</D:href>
+ </D:principal-collection-set>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
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+
+
+5.9. Example: PROPFIND to retrieve access control properties
+
+ The following example shows how access control information can be
+ retrieved by using the PROPFIND method to fetch the values of the
+ DAV:owner, DAV:supported-privilege-set, DAV:current-user-privilege-
+ set, and DAV:acl properties.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ PROPFIND /top/container/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Depth: 0
+ Authorization: Digest username="ejw",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/top/container/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:propfind xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:owner/>
+ <D:supported-privilege-set/>
+ <D:current-user-privilege-set/>
+ <D:acl/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:propfind>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:"
+ xmlns:A="http://www.example.com/acl/">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/top/container/</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:owner>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/gclemm</D:href>
+ </D:owner>
+ <D:supported-privilege-set>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:all/></D:privilege>
+ <D:abstract/>
+
+
+
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+
+
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Any operation
+ </D:description>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Read any object
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write/></D:privilege>
+ <D:abstract/>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Write any object
+ </D:description>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><A:create/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Create an object
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><A:update/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Update an object
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><A:delete/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Delete an object
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:read-acl/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Read the ACL
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:supported-privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write-acl/></D:privilege>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">
+ Write the ACL
+ </D:description>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ </D:supported-privilege>
+ </D:supported-privilege-set>
+
+
+
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+
+
+ <D:current-user-privilege-set>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:read-acl/></D:privilege>
+ </D:current-user-privilege-set>
+ <D:acl>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/esedlar</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write/></D:privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:read-acl/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/groups/mrktng</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:deny>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ </D:deny>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:property><D:owner/></D:property>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read-acl/></D:privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write-acl/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal><D:all/></D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ <D:inherited>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/top</D:href>
+ </D:inherited>
+ </D:ace>
+ </D:acl>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ The value of the DAV:owner property is a single DAV:href XML element
+ containing the URL of the principal that owns this resource.
+
+ The value of the DAV:supported-privilege-set property is a tree of
+ supported privileges (using "[XML Namespace , localname]" to identify
+ each privilege):
+
+ [DAV:, all] (aggregate, abstract)
+ |
+ +-- [DAV:, read]
+ +-- [DAV:, write] (aggregate, abstract)
+ |
+ +-- [http://www.example.com/acl, create]
+ +-- [http://www.example.com/acl, update]
+ +-- [http://www.example.com/acl, delete]
+ +-- [DAV:, read-acl]
+ +-- [DAV:, write-acl]
+
+ The DAV:current-user-privilege-set property contains two privileges,
+ DAV:read, and DAV:read-acl. This indicates that the current
+ authenticated user only has the ability to read the resource, and
+ read the DAV:acl property on the resource. The DAV:acl property
+ contains a set of four ACEs:
+
+ ACE #1: The principal identified by the URL http://www.example.com/
+ users/esedlar is granted the DAV:read, DAV:write, and DAV:read-acl
+ privileges.
+
+ ACE #2: The principals identified by the URL http://www.example.com/
+ groups/mrktng are denied the DAV:read privilege. In this example,
+ the principal URL identifies a group.
+
+ ACE #3: In this ACE, the principal is a property principal,
+ specifically the DAV:owner property. When evaluating this ACE, the
+ value of the DAV:owner property is retrieved, and is examined to see
+ if it contains a DAV:href XML element. If so, the URL within the
+ DAV:href element is read, and identifies a principal. In this ACE,
+ the owner is granted DAV:read-acl, and DAV:write-acl privileges.
+
+ ACE #4: This ACE grants the DAV:all principal (all users) the
+ DAV:read privilege. This ACE is inherited from the resource http://
+ www.example.com/top, the parent collection of this resource.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+6. ACL Evaluation
+
+ WebDAV ACLs are evaluated in similar manner as ACLs on Windows NT and
+ in NFSv4 [RFC3530]). An ACL is evaluated to determine whether or not
+ access will be granted for a WebDAV request. ACEs are maintained in
+ a particular order, and are evaluated until all of the permissions
+ required by the current request have been granted, at which point the
+ ACL evaluation is terminated and access is granted. If, during ACL
+ evaluation, a <deny> ACE (matching the current user) is encountered
+ for a privilege which has not yet been granted, the ACL evaluation is
+ terminated and access is denied. Failure to have all required
+ privileges granted results in access being denied.
+
+ Note that the semantics of many other existing ACL systems may be
+ represented via this mechanism, by mixing deny and grant ACEs. For
+ example, consider the standard "rwx" privilege scheme used by UNIX.
+ In this scheme, if the current user is the owner of the file, access
+ is granted if the corresponding privilege bit is set and denied if
+ not set, regardless of the permissions set on the file's group and
+ for the world. An ACL for UNIX permissions of "r--rw-r--" might be
+ constructed like:
+
+ <D:acl>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:property><D:owner/></D:property>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:property><D:owner/></D:property>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:deny>
+ <D:privilege><D:all/></D:privilege>
+ </D:deny>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:property><D:group/></D:property>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+
+
+
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+
+
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:property><D:group/></D:property>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:deny>
+ <D:privilege><D:all/></D:privilege>
+ </D:deny>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal><D:all></D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ </D:acl>
+
+ and the <acl-restrictions> would be defined as:
+
+ <D:no-invert/>
+ <D:required-principal>
+ <D:all/>
+ <D:property><D:owner/></D:property>
+ <D:property><D:group/><D:group/>
+ </D:required-principal>
+
+ Note that the client can still get errors from a UNIX server in spite
+ of obeying the <acl-restrictions>, including <D:allowed-principal>
+ (adding an ACE specifying a principal other than the ones in the ACL
+ above) or <D:ace-conflict> (by trying to reorder the ACEs in the
+ example above), as these particular implementation semantics are too
+ complex to be captured with the simple (but general) declarative
+ restrictions.
+
+7. Access Control and existing methods
+
+ This section defines the impact of access control functionality on
+ existing methods.
+
+7.1. Any HTTP method
+
+7.1.1. Error Handling
+
+ The WebDAV ACL mechanism requires the usage of HTTP method
+ "preconditions" as described in section 1.6 of RFC3253 for ALL HTTP
+ methods. All HTTP methods have an additional precondition called
+ DAV:need-privileges. If an HTTP method fails due to insufficient
+ privileges, the response body to the "403 Forbidden" error MUST
+ contain the <DAV:error> element, which in turn contains the
+
+
+
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+
+ <DAV:need-privileges> element, which contains one or more
+ <DAV:resource> elements indicating which resource had insufficient
+ privileges, and what the lacking privileges were:
+
+ <!ELEMENT need-privileges (resource)* >
+ <!ELEMENT resource ( href , privilege ) >
+
+ Since some methods require multiple permissions on multiple
+ resources, this information is needed to resolve any ambiguity.
+ There is no requirement that all privilege violations be reported -
+ for implementation reasons, some servers may only report the first
+ privilege violation. For example:
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ MOVE /a/b/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Destination: http://www.example.com/c/d
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <D:error xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:need-privileges>
+ <D:resource>
+ <D:href>/a</D:href>
+ <D:privilege><D:unbind/></D:privilege>
+ </D:resource>
+ <D:resource>
+ <D:href>/c</D:href>
+ <D:privilege><D:bind/></D:privilege>
+ </D:resource>
+ </D:need-privileges>
+ </D:error>
+
+7.2. OPTIONS
+
+ If the server supports access control, it MUST return "access-
+ control" as a field in the DAV response header from an OPTIONS
+ request on any resource implemented by that server. A value of
+ "access-control" in the DAV header MUST indicate that the server
+ supports all MUST level requirements and REQUIRED features specified
+ in this document.
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+7.2.1. Example - OPTIONS
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ OPTIONS /foo.html HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Length: 0
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+ DAV: 1, 2, access-control
+ Allow: OPTIONS, GET, PUT, PROPFIND, PROPPATCH, ACL
+
+ In this example, the OPTIONS response indicates that the server
+ supports access control and that /foo.html can have its access
+ control list modified by the ACL method.
+
+7.3. MOVE
+
+ When a resource is moved from one location to another due to a MOVE
+ request, the non-inherited and non-protected ACEs in the DAV:acl
+ property of the resource MUST NOT be modified, or the MOVE request
+ fails. Handling of inherited and protected ACEs is intentionally
+ undefined to give server implementations flexibility in how they
+ implement ACE inheritance and protection.
+
+7.4. COPY
+
+ The DAV:acl property on the resource at the destination of a COPY
+ MUST be the same as if the resource was created by an individual
+ resource creation request (e.g., MKCOL, PUT). Clients wishing to
+ preserve the DAV:acl property across a copy need to read the DAV:acl
+ property prior to the COPY, then perform an ACL operation on the new
+ resource at the destination to restore, insofar as this is possible,
+ the original access control list.
+
+7.5. LOCK
+
+ A lock on a resource ensures that only the lock owner can modify ACEs
+ that are not inherited and not protected (these are the only ACEs
+ that a client can modify with an ACL request). A lock does not
+ protect inherited or protected ACEs, since a client cannot modify
+ them with an ACL request on that resource.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+8. Access Control Methods
+
+8.1. ACL
+
+ The ACL method modifies the access control list (which can be read
+ via the DAV:acl property) of a resource. Specifically, the ACL
+ method only permits modification to ACEs that are not inherited, and
+ are not protected. An ACL method invocation modifies all non-
+ inherited and non-protected ACEs in a resource's access control list
+ to exactly match the ACEs contained within in the DAV:acl XML element
+ (specified in Section 5.5) of the request body. An ACL request body
+ MUST contain only one DAV:acl XML element. Unless the non-inherited
+ and non-protected ACEs of the DAV:acl property of the resource can be
+ updated to be exactly the value specified in the ACL request, the ACL
+ request MUST fail.
+
+ It is possible that the ACEs visible to the current user in the
+ DAV:acl property may only be a portion of the complete set of ACEs on
+ that resource. If this is the case, an ACL request only modifies the
+ set of ACEs visible to the current user, and does not affect any
+ non-visible ACE.
+
+ In order to avoid overwriting DAV:acl changes by another client, a
+ client SHOULD acquire a WebDAV lock on the resource before retrieving
+ the DAV:acl property of a resource that it intends on updating.
+
+ Implementation Note: Two common operations are to add or remove an
+ ACE from an existing access control list. To accomplish this, a
+ client uses the PROPFIND method to retrieve the value of the
+ DAV:acl property, then parses the returned access control list to
+ remove all inherited and protected ACEs (these ACEs are tagged
+ with the DAV:inherited and DAV:protected XML elements). In the
+ remaining set of non-inherited, non-protected ACEs, the client can
+ add or remove one or more ACEs before submitting the final ACE set
+ in the request body of the ACL method.
+
+8.1.1. ACL Preconditions
+
+ An implementation MUST enforce the following constraints on an ACL
+ request. If the constraint is violated, a 403 (Forbidden) or 409
+ (Conflict) response MUST be returned and the indicated XML element
+ MUST be returned as a child of a top level DAV:error element in an
+ XML response body.
+
+ Though these status elements are generally expressed as empty XML
+ elements (and are defined as EMPTY in the DTD), implementations MAY
+ return additional descriptive XML elements as children of the status
+
+
+
+
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+
+ element. Clients MUST be able to accept children of these status
+ elements. Clients that do not understand the additional XML elements
+ should ignore them.
+
+ (DAV:no-ace-conflict): The ACEs submitted in the ACL request MUST NOT
+ conflict with each other. This is a catchall error code indicating
+ that an implementation-specific ACL restriction has been violated.
+
+ (DAV:no-protected-ace-conflict): The ACEs submitted in the ACL
+ request MUST NOT conflict with the protected ACEs on the resource.
+ For example, if the resource has a protected ACE granting DAV:write
+ to a given principal, then it would not be consistent if the ACL
+ request submitted an ACE denying DAV:write to the same principal.
+
+ (DAV:no-inherited-ace-conflict): The ACEs submitted in the ACL
+ request MUST NOT conflict with the inherited ACEs on the resource.
+ For example, if the resource inherits an ACE from its parent
+ collection granting DAV:write to a given principal, then it would not
+ be consistent if the ACL request submitted an ACE denying DAV:write
+ to the same principal. Note that reporting of this error will be
+ implementation-dependent. Implementations MUST either report this
+ error or allow the ACE to be set, and then let normal ACE evaluation
+ rules determine whether the new ACE has any impact on the privileges
+ available to a specific principal.
+
+ (DAV:limited-number-of-aces): The number of ACEs submitted in the ACL
+ request MUST NOT exceed the number of ACEs allowed on that resource.
+ However, ACL-compliant servers MUST support at least one ACE granting
+ privileges to a single principal, and one ACE granting privileges to
+ a group.
+
+ (DAV:deny-before-grant): All non-inherited deny ACEs MUST precede all
+ non-inherited grant ACEs.
+
+ (DAV:grant-only): The ACEs submitted in the ACL request MUST NOT
+ include a deny ACE. This precondition applies only when the ACL
+ restrictions of the resource include the DAV:grant-only constraint
+ (defined in Section 5.6.1).
+
+ (DAV:no-invert): The ACL request MUST NOT include a DAV:invert
+ element. This precondition applies only when the ACL semantics of
+ the resource includes the DAV:no-invert constraint (defined in
+ Section 5.6.2).
+
+ (DAV:no-abstract): The ACL request MUST NOT attempt to grant or deny
+ an abstract privilege (see Section 5.3).
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+ (DAV:not-supported-privilege): The ACEs submitted in the ACL request
+ MUST be supported by the resource.
+
+ (DAV:missing-required-principal): The result of the ACL request MUST
+ have at least one ACE for each principal identified in a
+ DAV:required-principal XML element in the ACL semantics of that
+ resource (see Section 5.5).
+
+ (DAV:recognized-principal): Every principal URL in the ACL request
+ MUST identify a principal resource.
+
+ (DAV:allowed-principal): The principals specified in the ACEs
+ submitted in the ACL request MUST be allowed as principals for the
+ resource. For example, a server where only authenticated principals
+ can access resources would not allow the DAV:all or
+ DAV:unauthenticated principals to be used in an ACE, since these
+ would allow unauthenticated access to resources.
+
+8.1.2. Example: the ACL method
+
+ In the following example, user "fielding", authenticated by
+ information in the Authorization header, grants the principal
+ identified by the URL http://www.example.com/users/esedlar (i.e., the
+ user "esedlar") read and write privileges, grants the owner of the
+ resource read-acl and write-acl privileges, and grants everyone read
+ privileges.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ ACL /top/container/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+ Authorization: Digest username="fielding",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/top/container/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:acl xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/esedlar</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+
+
+
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+
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:property><D:owner/></D:property>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read-acl/></D:privilege>
+ <D:privilege><D:write-acl/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal><D:all/></D:principal>
+ <D:grant>
+ <D:privilege><D:read/></D:privilege>
+ </D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ </D:acl>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+
+8.1.3. Example: ACL method failure due to protected ACE conflict
+
+ In the following request, user "fielding", authenticated by
+ information in the Authorization header, attempts to deny the
+ principal identified by the URL http://www.example.com/users/esedlar
+ (i.e., the user "esedlar") write privileges. Prior to the request,
+ the DAV:acl property on the resource contained a protected ACE (see
+ Section 5.5.3) granting DAV:owner the DAV:read and DAV:write
+ privileges. The principal identified by URL http://www.example.com/
+ users/esedlar is the owner of the resource. The ACL method
+ invocation fails because the submitted ACE conflicts with the
+ protected ACE, thus violating the semantics of ACE protection.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ ACL /top/container/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+ Authorization: Digest username="fielding",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/top/container/", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:acl xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+
+
+
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+
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/esedlar</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:deny>
+ <D:privilege><D:write/></D:privilege>
+ </D:deny>
+ </D:ace>
+ </D:acl>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:error xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:no-protected-ace-conflict/>
+ </D:error>
+
+8.1.4. Example: ACL method failure due to an inherited ACE conflict
+
+ In the following request, user "ejw", authenticated by information in
+ the Authorization header, tries to change the access control list on
+ the resource http://www.example.com/top/index.html. This resource
+ has two inherited ACEs.
+
+ Inherited ACE #1 grants the principal identified by URL http://
+ www.example.com/users/ejw (i.e., the user "ejw") http://
+ www.example.com/privs/write-all and DAV:read-acl privileges. On this
+ server, http://www.example.com/privs/write-all is an aggregate
+ privilege containing DAV:write, and DAV:write-acl.
+
+ Inherited ACE #2 grants principal DAV:all the DAV:read privilege.
+
+ The request attempts to set a (non-inherited) ACE, denying the
+ principal identified by the URL http://www.example.com/users/ejw
+ (i.e., the user "ejw") DAV:write permission. This conflicts with
+ inherited ACE #1. Note that the decision to report an inherited ACE
+ conflict is specific to this server implementation. Another server
+ implementation could have allowed the new ACE to be set, and then
+ used normal ACE evaluation rules to determine whether the new ACE has
+ any impact on the privileges available to a principal.
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ ACL /top/index.html HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+ Authorization: Digest username="ejw",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/top/index.html", response="...", opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:acl xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:F="http://www.example.com/privs/">
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/ejw</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant><D:write/></D:grant>
+ </D:ace>
+ </D:acl>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:error xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:no-inherited-ace-conflict/>
+ </D:error>
+
+8.1.5. Example: ACL method failure due to an attempt to set grant and
+ deny in a single ACE
+
+ In this example, user "ygoland", authenticated by information in the
+ Authorization header, tries to change the access control list on the
+ resource http://www.example.com/diamond/engagement-ring.gif. The ACL
+ request includes a single, syntactically and semantically incorrect
+ ACE, which attempts to grant the group identified by the URL http://
+ www.example.com/users/friends DAV:read privilege and deny the
+ principal identified by URL http://www.example.com/users/ygoland-so
+ (i.e., the user "ygoland-so") DAV:read privilege. However, it is
+ illegal to have multiple principal elements, as well as both a grant
+ and deny element in the same ACE, so the request fails due to poor
+ syntax.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ ACL /diamond/engagement-ring.gif HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+ Authorization: Digest username="ygoland",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/diamond/engagement-ring.gif", response="...",
+ opaque="..."
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:acl xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:ace>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/friends</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:grant><D:read/></D:grant>
+ <D:principal>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/ygoland-so</D:href>
+ </D:principal>
+ <D:deny><D:read/></D:deny>
+ </D:ace>
+ </D:acl>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
+ Content-Length: 0
+
+ Note that if the request had been divided into two ACEs, one to
+ grant, and one to deny, the request would have been syntactically
+ well formed.
+
+9. Access Control Reports
+
+9.1. REPORT Method
+
+ The REPORT method (defined in Section 3.6 of [RFC3253]) provides an
+ extensible mechanism for obtaining information about a resource.
+ Unlike the PROPFIND method, which returns the value of one or more
+ named properties, the REPORT method can involve more complex
+ processing. REPORT is valuable in cases where the server has access
+ to all of the information needed to perform the complex request (such
+ as a query), and where it would require multiple requests for the
+ client to retrieve the information needed to perform the same
+ request.
+
+
+
+
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+
+ A server that supports the WebDAV Access Control Protocol MUST
+ support the DAV:expand-property report (defined in Section 3.8 of
+ [RFC3253]).
+
+9.2. DAV:acl-principal-prop-set Report
+
+ The DAV:acl-principal-prop-set report returns, for all principals in
+ the DAV:acl property (of the Request-URI) that are identified by
+ http(s) URLs or by a DAV:property principal, the value of the
+ properties specified in the REPORT request body. In the case where a
+ principal URL appears multiple times, the DAV:acl-principal-prop-set
+ report MUST return the properties for that principal only once.
+ Support for this report is REQUIRED.
+
+ One expected use of this report is to retrieve the human readable
+ name (found in the DAV:displayname property) of each principal found
+ in an ACL. This is useful for constructing user interfaces that show
+ each ACE in a human readable form.
+
+ Marshalling
+
+ The request body MUST be a DAV:acl-principal-prop-set XML element.
+
+ <!ELEMENT acl-principal-prop-set ANY>
+ ANY value: a sequence of one or more elements, with at most one
+ DAV:prop element.
+ prop: see RFC 2518, Section 12.11
+
+ This report is only defined when the Depth header has value "0";
+ other values result in a 400 (Bad Request) error response. Note
+ that [RFC3253], Section 3.6, states that if the Depth header is
+ not present, it defaults to a value of "0".
+
+ The response body for a successful request MUST be a
+ DAV:multistatus XML element (i.e., the response uses the same
+ format as the response for PROPFIND). In the case where there are
+ no response elements, the returned multistatus XML element is
+ empty.
+
+ multistatus: see RFC 2518, Section 12.9
+
+ The response body for a successful DAV:acl-principal-prop-set
+ REPORT request MUST contain a DAV:response element for each
+ principal identified by an http(s) URL listed in a DAV:principal
+ XML element of an ACE within the DAV:acl property of the resource
+ identified by the Request-URI.
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+ Postconditions:
+
+ (DAV:number-of-matches-within-limits): The number of matching
+ principals must fall within server-specific, predefined limits.
+ For example, this condition might be triggered if a search
+ specification would cause the return of an extremely large number
+ of responses.
+
+9.2.1. Example: DAV:acl-principal-prop-set Report
+
+ Resource http://www.example.com/index.html has an ACL with three
+ ACEs:
+
+ ACE #1: All principals (DAV:all) have DAV:read and DAV:read-current-
+ user-privilege-set access.
+
+ ACE #2: The principal identified by http://www.example.com/people/
+ gstein (the user "gstein") is granted DAV:write, DAV:write-acl,
+ DAV:read-acl privileges.
+
+ ACE #3: The group identified by http://www.example.com/groups/authors
+ (the "authors" group) is granted DAV:write and DAV:read-acl
+ privileges.
+
+ The following example shows a DAV:acl-principal-prop-set report
+ requesting the DAV:displayname property. It returns the value of
+ DAV:displayname for resources http://www.example.com/people/gstein
+ and http://www.example.com/groups/authors , but not for DAV:all,
+ since this is not an http(s) URL.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ REPORT /index.html HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+ Depth: 0
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:acl-principal-prop-set xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:displayname/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:acl-principal-prop-set>
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/people/gstein</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:displayname>Greg Stein</D:displayname>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/groups/authors</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:displayname>Site authors</D:displayname>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+9.3. DAV:principal-match REPORT
+
+ The DAV:principal-match REPORT is used to identify all members (at
+ any depth) of the collection identified by the Request-URI that are
+ principals and that match the current user. In particular, if the
+ collection contains principals, the report can be used to identify
+ all members of the collection that match the current user.
+ Alternatively, if the collection contains resources that have a
+ property that identifies a principal (e.g., DAV:owner), the report
+ can be used to identify all members of the collection whose property
+ identifies a principal that matches the current user. For example,
+ this report can return all of the resources in a collection hierarchy
+ that are owned by the current user. Support for this report is
+ REQUIRED.
+
+ Marshalling:
+
+ The request body MUST be a DAV:principal-match XML element.
+ <!ELEMENT principal-match ((principal-property | self), prop?)>
+ <!ELEMENT principal-property ANY>
+
+
+
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+
+ ANY value: an element whose value identifies a property. The
+ expectation is the value of the named property typically contains
+ an href element that contains the URI of a principal
+ <!ELEMENT self EMPTY>
+ prop: see RFC 2518, Section 12.11
+
+ This report is only defined when the Depth header has value "0";
+ other values result in a 400 (Bad Request) error response. Note
+ that [RFC3253], Section 3.6, states that if the Depth header is
+ not present, it defaults to a value of "0". The response body for
+ a successful request MUST be a DAV:multistatus XML element. In
+ the case where there are no response elements, the returned
+ multistatus XML element is empty.
+
+ multistatus: see RFC 2518, Section 12.9
+
+ The response body for a successful DAV:principal-match REPORT
+ request MUST contain a DAV:response element for each member of the
+ collection that matches the current user. When the
+ DAV:principal-property element is used, a match occurs if the
+ current user is matched by the principal identified by the URI
+ found in the DAV:href element of the property identified by the
+ DAV:principal-property element. When the DAV:self element is used
+ in a DAV:principal-match report issued against a group, it matches
+ the group if a member identifies the same principal as the current
+ user.
+
+ If DAV:prop is specified in the request body, the properties
+ specified in the DAV:prop element MUST be reported in the
+ DAV:response elements.
+
+9.3.1. Example: DAV:principal-match REPORT
+
+ The following example identifies the members of the collection
+ identified by the URL http://www.example.com/doc that are owned by
+ the current user. The current user ("gclemm") is authenticated using
+ Digest authentication.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ REPORT /doc/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Authorization: Digest username="gclemm",
+ realm="users@example.com", nonce="...",
+ uri="/papers/", response="...", opaque="..."
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+ Depth: 0
+
+
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+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:principal-match xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:principal-property>
+ <D:owner/>
+ </D:principal-property>
+ </D:principal-match>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/doc/foo.html</D:href>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:response>
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/doc/img/bar.gif</D:href>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+9.4. DAV:principal-property-search REPORT
+
+ The DAV:principal-property-search REPORT performs a search for all
+ principals whose properties contain character data that matches the
+ search criteria specified in the request. One expected use of this
+ report is to discover the URL of a principal associated with a given
+ person or group by searching for them by name. This is done by
+ searching over DAV:displayname, which is defined on all principals.
+
+ The actual search method (exact matching vs. substring matching vs,
+ prefix-matching, case-sensitivity) deliberately is left to the server
+ implementation to allow implementation on a wide set of possible user
+ management systems. In cases where the implementation of
+ DAV:principal-property-search is not constrained by the semantics of
+ an underlying user management repository, preferred default semantics
+ are caseless substring matches.
+
+ For implementation efficiency, servers do not typically support
+ searching on all properties. A search requesting properties that are
+ not searchable for a particular principal will not match that
+ principal.
+
+ Support for the DAV:principal-property-search report is REQUIRED.
+
+
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+
+ Implementation Note: The value of a WebDAV property is a sequence
+ of well-formed XML, and hence can include any character in the
+ Unicode/ISO-10646 standard, that is, most known characters in
+ human languages. Due to the idiosyncrasies of case mapping across
+ human languages, implementation of case-insensitive matching is
+ non-trivial. Implementors of servers that do perform substring
+ matching are strongly encouraged to consult "The Unicode Standard"
+ [UNICODE4], especially Section 5.18, Subsection "Caseless
+ Matching", for guidance when implementing their case-insensitive
+ matching algorithms.
+
+ Implementation Note: Some implementations of this protocol will
+ use an LDAP repository for storage of principal metadata. The
+ schema describing each attribute (akin to a WebDAV property) in an
+ LDAP repository specifies whether it supports case-sensitive or
+ caseless searching. One of the benefits of leaving the search
+ method to the discretion of the server implementation is the
+ default LDAP attribute search behavior can be used when
+ implementing the DAV:principal-property-search report.
+
+ Marshalling:
+
+ The request body MUST be a DAV:principal-property-search XML
+ element containing a search specification and an optional list of
+ properties. For every principal that matches the search
+ specification, the response will contain the value of the
+ requested properties on that principal.
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-property-search
+ ((property-search+), prop?, apply-to-principal-collection-set?) >
+
+ By default, the report searches all members (at any depth) of the
+ collection identified by the Request-URI. If DAV:apply-to-
+ principal-collection-set is specified in the request body, the
+ request is applied instead to each collection identified by the
+ DAV:principal-collection-set property of the resource identified
+ by the Request-URI.
+
+ The DAV:property-search element contains a prop element
+ enumerating the properties to be searched and a match element,
+ containing the search string.
+
+ <!ELEMENT property-search (prop, match) >
+ prop: see RFC 2518, Section 12.11
+
+ <!ELEMENT match #PCDATA >
+
+
+
+
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+ Multiple property-search elements or multiple elements within a
+ DAV:prop element will be interpreted with a logical AND.
+
+ This report is only defined when the Depth header has value "0";
+ other values result in a 400 (Bad Request) error response. Note
+ that [RFC3253], Section 3.6, states that if the Depth header is
+ not present, it defaults to a value of "0".
+
+ The response body for a successful request MUST be a
+ DAV:multistatus XML element. In the case where there are no
+ response elements, the returned multistatus XML element is empty.
+
+ multistatus: see RFC 2518, Section 12.9
+
+ The response body for a successful DAV:principal-property-search
+ REPORT request MUST contain a DAV:response element for each
+ principal whose property values satisfy the search specification
+ given in DAV:principal-property-search.
+
+ If DAV:prop is specified in the request body, the properties
+ specified in the DAV:prop element MUST be reported in the
+ DAV:response elements.
+
+ Preconditions:
+
+ None
+
+ Postconditions:
+
+ (DAV:number-of-matches-within-limits): The number of matching
+ principals must fall within server-specific, predefined limits.
+ For example, this condition might be triggered if a search
+ specification would cause the return of an extremely large number
+ of responses.
+
+9.4.1. Matching
+
+ There are several cases to consider when matching strings. The
+ easiest case is when a property value is "simple" and has only
+ character information item content (see [REC-XML-INFOSET]). For
+ example, the search string "julian" would match the DAV:displayname
+ property with value "Julian Reschke". Note that the on-the-wire
+ marshaling of DAV:displayname in this case is:
+
+ <D:displayname xmlns:D="DAV:">Julian Reschke</D:displayname>
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+ The name of the property is encoded into the XML element information
+ item, and the character information item content of the property is
+ "Julian Reschke".
+
+ A more complicated case occurs when properties have mixed content
+ (that is, compound values consisting of multiple child element items,
+ other types of information items, and character information item
+ content). Consider the property "aprop" in the namespace "http://
+ www.example.com/props/", marshaled as:
+
+ <W:aprop xmlns:W="http://www.example.com/props/">
+ {cdata 0}<W:elem1>{cdata 1}</W:elem1>
+ <W:elem2>{cdata 2}</W:elem2>{cdata 3}
+ </W:aprop>
+
+ In this case, matching is performed on each individual contiguous
+ sequence of character information items. In the example above, a
+ search string would be compared to the four following strings:
+
+ {cdata 0}
+ {cdata 1}
+ {cdata 2}
+ {cdata 3}
+
+ That is, four individual matches would be performed, one each for
+ {cdata 0}, {cdata 1}, {cdata 2}, and {cdata 3}.
+
+9.4.2. Example: successful DAV:principal-property-search REPORT
+
+ In this example, the client requests the principal URLs of all users
+ whose DAV:displayname property contains the substring "doE" and whose
+ "title" property in the namespace "http://BigCorp.com/ns/" (that is,
+ their professional title) contains "Sales". In addition, the client
+ requests five properties to be returned with the matching principals:
+
+ In the DAV: namespace: displayname
+
+ In the http://www.example.com/ns/ namespace: department, phone,
+ office, salary
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+
+ The response shows that two principal resources meet the search
+ specification, "John Doe" and "Zygdoebert Smith". The property
+ "salary" in namespace "http://www.example.com/ns/" is not returned,
+ since the principal making the request does not have sufficient
+ access permissions to read this property.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ REPORT /users/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+ Depth: 0
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:principal-property-search xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:property-search>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:displayname/>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:match>doE</D:match>
+ </D:property-search>
+ <D:property-search>
+ <D:prop xmlns:B="http://www.example.com/ns/">
+ <B:title/>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:match>Sales</D:match>
+ </D:property-search>
+ <D:prop xmlns:B="http://www.example.com/ns/">
+ <D:displayname/>
+ <B:department/>
+ <B:phone/>
+ <B:office/>
+ <B:salary/>
+ </D:prop>
+ </D:principal-property-search>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 207 Multi-Status
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8
+ Content-Length: xxxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:multistatus xmlns:D="DAV:" xmlns:B="http://BigCorp.com/ns/">
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/jdoe</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+
+
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+
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:displayname>John Doe</D:displayname>
+ <B:department>Widget Sales</B:department>
+ <B:phone>234-4567</B:phone>
+ <B:office>209</B:office>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <B:salary/>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ <D:response>
+ <D:href>http://www.example.com/users/zsmith</D:href>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:displayname>Zygdoebert Smith</D:displayname>
+ <B:department>Gadget Sales</B:department>
+ <B:phone>234-7654</B:phone>
+ <B:office>114</B:office>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ <D:propstat>
+ <D:prop>
+ <B:salary/>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:status>HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden</D:status>
+ </D:propstat>
+ </D:response>
+ </D:multistatus>
+
+9.5. DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT
+
+ The DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT identifies those
+ properties that may be searched using the DAV:principal-property-
+ search REPORT (defined in Section 9.4).
+
+ Servers MUST support the DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT on
+ all collections identified in the value of a DAV:principal-
+ collection-set property.
+
+ An access control protocol user agent could use the results of the
+ DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT to present a query interface
+ to the user for retrieving principals.
+
+
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+
+ Support for this report is REQUIRED.
+
+ Implementation Note: Some clients will have only limited screen
+ real estate for the display of lists of searchable properties. In
+ this case, a user might appreciate having the most frequently
+ searched properties be displayed on-screen, rather than having to
+ scroll through a long list of searchable properties. One
+ mechanism for signaling the most frequently searched properties is
+ to return them towards the start of a list of properties. A
+ client can then preferentially display the list of properties in
+ order, increasing the likelihood that the most frequently searched
+ properties will appear on-screen, and will not require scrolling
+ for their selection.
+
+ Marshalling:
+
+ The request body MUST be an empty DAV:principal-search-property-
+ set XML element.
+
+ This report is only defined when the Depth header has value "0";
+ other values result in a 400 (Bad Request) error response. Note
+ that [RFC3253], Section 3.6, states that if the Depth header is
+ not present, it defaults to a value of "0".
+
+ The response body MUST be a DAV:principal-search-property-set XML
+ element, containing a DAV:principal-search-property XML element
+ for each property that may be searched with the DAV:principal-
+ property-search REPORT. A server MAY limit its response to just a
+ subset of the searchable properties, such as those likely to be
+ useful to an interactive access control client.
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-search-property-set
+ (principal-search-property*) >
+
+ Each DAV:principal-search-property XML element contains exactly
+ one searchable property, and a description of the property.
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-search-property (prop, description) >
+
+ The DAV:prop element contains one principal property on which the
+ server is able to perform a DAV:principal-property-search REPORT.
+
+ prop: see RFC 2518, Section 12.11
+
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+ The description element is a human-readable description of what
+ information this property represents. Servers MUST indicate the
+ human language of the description using the xml:lang attribute and
+ SHOULD consider the HTTP Accept-Language request header when
+ selecting one of multiple available languages.
+
+ <!ELEMENT description #PCDATA >
+
+9.5.1. Example: DAV:principal-search-property-set REPORT
+
+ In this example, the client determines the set of searchable
+ principal properties by requesting the DAV:principal-search-
+ property-set REPORT on the root of the server's principal URL
+ collection set, identified by http://www.example.com/users/.
+
+ >> Request <<
+
+ REPORT /users/ HTTP/1.1
+ Host: www.example.com
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+ Accept-Language: en, de
+ Authorization: BASIC d2FubmFtYWs6cGFzc3dvcmQ=
+ Depth: 0
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:principal-search-property-set xmlns:D="DAV:"/>
+
+ >> Response <<
+
+ HTTP/1.1 200 OK
+ Content-Type: text/xml; charset="utf-8"
+ Content-Length: xxx
+
+ <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
+ <D:principal-search-property-set xmlns:D="DAV:">
+ <D:principal-search-property>
+ <D:prop>
+ <D:displayname/>
+ </D:prop>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">Full name</D:description>
+ </D:principal-search-property>
+ <D:principal-search-property>
+ <D:prop xmlns:B="http://BigCorp.com/ns/">
+ <B:title/>
+
+
+
+
+
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+ </D:prop>
+ <D:description xml:lang="en">Job title</D:description>
+ </D:principal-search-property>
+ </D:principal-search-property-set>
+
+10. XML Processing
+
+ Implementations of this specification MUST support the XML element
+ ignore rule, as specified in Section 23.3.2 of [RFC2518], and the XML
+ Namespace recommendation [REC-XML-NAMES].
+
+ Note that use of the DAV namespace is reserved for XML elements and
+ property names defined in a standards-track or Experimental IETF RFC.
+
+11. Internationalization Considerations
+
+ In this specification, the only human-readable content can be found
+ in the description XML element, found within the DAV:supported-
+ privilege-set property. This element contains a human-readable
+ description of the capabilities controlled by a privilege. As a
+ result, the description element must be capable of representing
+ descriptions in multiple character sets. Since the description
+ element is found within a WebDAV property, it is represented on the
+ wire as XML [REC-XML], and hence can leverage XML's language tagging
+ and character set encoding capabilities. Specifically, XML
+ processors at minimum must be able to read XML elements encoded using
+ the UTF-8 [RFC3629] encoding of the ISO 10646 multilingual plane.
+ XML examples in this specification demonstrate use of the charset
+ parameter of the Content-Type header, as defined in [RFC3023], as
+ well as the XML "encoding" attribute, which together provide charset
+ identification information for MIME and XML processors. Furthermore,
+ this specification requires server implementations to tag description
+ fields with the xml:lang attribute (see Section 2.12 of [REC-XML]),
+ which specifies the human language of the description. Additionally,
+ server implementations should take into account the value of the
+ Accept-Language HTTP header to determine which description string to
+ return.
+
+ For XML elements other than the description element, it is expected
+ that implementations will treat the property names, privilege names,
+ and values as tokens, and convert these tokens into human-readable
+ text in the user's language and character set when displayed to a
+ person. Only a generic WebDAV property display utility would display
+ these values in their raw form to a human user.
+
+ For error reporting, we follow the convention of HTTP/1.1 status
+ codes, including with each status code a short, English description
+ of the code (e.g., 200 (OK)). While the possibility exists that a
+
+
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+ poorly crafted user agent would display this message to a user,
+ internationalized applications will ignore this message, and display
+ an appropriate message in the user's language and character set.
+
+ Further internationalization considerations for this protocol are
+ described in the WebDAV Distributed Authoring protocol specification
+ [RFC2518].
+
+12. Security Considerations
+
+ Applications and users of this access control protocol should be
+ aware of several security considerations, detailed below. In
+ addition to the discussion in this document, the security
+ considerations detailed in the HTTP/1.1 specification [RFC2616], the
+ WebDAV Distributed Authoring Protocol specification [RFC2518], and
+ the XML Media Types specification [RFC3023] should be considered in a
+ security analysis of this protocol.
+
+12.1. Increased Risk of Compromised Users
+
+ In the absence of a mechanism for remotely manipulating access
+ control lists, if a single user's authentication credentials are
+ compromised, only those resources for which the user has access
+ permission can be read, modified, moved, or deleted. With the
+ introduction of this access control protocol, if a single compromised
+ user has the ability to change ACLs for a broad range of other users
+ (e.g., a super-user), the number of resources that could be altered
+ by a single compromised user increases. This risk can be mitigated
+ by limiting the number of people who have write-acl privileges across
+ a broad range of resources.
+
+12.2. Risks of the DAV:read-acl and DAV:current-user-privilege-set
+ Privileges
+
+ The ability to read the access privileges (stored in the DAV:acl
+ property), or the privileges permitted the currently authenticated
+ user (stored in the DAV:current-user-privilege-set property) on a
+ resource may seem innocuous, since reading an ACL cannot possibly
+ affect the resource's state. However, if all resources have world-
+ readable ACLs, it is possible to perform an exhaustive search for
+ those resources that have inadvertently left themselves in a
+ vulnerable state, such as being world-writable. In particular, the
+ property retrieval method PROPFIND, executed with Depth infinity on
+ an entire hierarchy, is a very efficient way to retrieve the DAV:acl
+ or DAV:current-user-privilege-set properties. Once found, this
+ vulnerability can be exploited by a denial of service attack in which
+ the open resource is repeatedly overwritten. Alternately, writable
+ resources can be modified in undesirable ways.
+
+
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+ To reduce this risk, read-acl privileges should not be granted to
+ unauthenticated principals, and restrictions on read-acl and read-
+ current-user-privilege-set privileges for authenticated principals
+ should be carefully analyzed when deploying this protocol. Access to
+ the current-user-privilege-set property will involve a tradeoff of
+ usability versus security. When the current-user-privilege-set is
+ visible, user interfaces are expected to provide enhanced information
+ concerning permitted and restricted operations, yet this information
+ may also indicate a vulnerability that could be exploited.
+ Deployment of this protocol will need to evaluate this tradeoff in
+ light of the requirements of the deployment environment.
+
+12.3. No Foreknowledge of Initial ACL
+
+ In an effort to reduce protocol complexity, this protocol
+ specification intentionally does not address the issue of how to
+ manage or discover the initial ACL that is placed upon a resource
+ when it is created. The only way to discover the initial ACL is to
+ create a new resource, then retrieve the value of the DAV:acl
+ property. This assumes the principal creating the resource also has
+ been granted the DAV:read-acl privilege.
+
+ As a result, it is possible that a principal could create a resource,
+ and then discover that its ACL grants privileges that are
+ undesirable. Furthermore, this protocol makes it possible (though
+ unlikely) that the creating principal could be unable to modify the
+ ACL, or even delete the resource. Even when the ACL can be modified,
+ there will be a short period of time when the resource exists with
+ the initial ACL before its new ACL can be set.
+
+ Several factors mitigate this risk. Human principals are often aware
+ of the default access permissions in their editing environments and
+ take this into account when writing information. Furthermore,
+ default privilege policies are usually very conservative, limiting
+ the privileges granted by the initial ACL.
+
+13. Authentication
+
+ Authentication mechanisms defined for use with HTTP and WebDAV also
+ apply to this WebDAV Access Control Protocol, in particular the Basic
+ and Digest authentication mechanisms defined in [RFC2617].
+ Implementation of the ACL spec requires that Basic authentication, if
+ used, MUST only be supported over secure transport such as TLS.
+
+
+
+
+
+
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+14. IANA Considerations
+
+ This document uses the namespace defined by [RFC2518] for XML
+ elements. That is, this specification uses the "DAV:" URI namespace,
+ previously registered in the URI schemes registry. All other IANA
+ considerations mentioned in [RFC2518] are also applicable to this
+ specification.
+
+15. Acknowledgements
+
+ This protocol is the collaborative product of the WebDAV ACL design
+ team: Bernard Chester, Geoff Clemm, Anne Hopkins, Barry Lind, Sean
+ Lyndersay, Eric Sedlar, Greg Stein, and Jim Whitehead. The authors
+ are grateful for the detailed review and comments provided by Jim
+ Amsden, Dylan Barrell, Gino Basso, Murthy Chintalapati, Lisa
+ Dusseault, Stefan Eissing, Tim Ellison, Yaron Goland, Dennis
+ Hamilton, Laurie Harper, Eckehard Hermann, Ron Jacobs, Chris Knight,
+ Remy Maucherat, Larry Masinter, Joe Orton, Peter Raymond, and Keith
+ Wannamaker. We thank Keith Wannamaker for the initial text of the
+ principal property search sections. Prior work on WebDAV access
+ control protocols has been performed by Yaron Goland, Paul Leach,
+ Lisa Dusseault, Howard Palmer, and Jon Radoff. We would like to
+ acknowledge the foundation laid for us by the authors of the DeltaV,
+ WebDAV and HTTP protocols upon which this protocol is layered, and
+ the invaluable feedback from the WebDAV working group.
+
+16. References
+
+16.1. Normative References
+
+ [REC-XML] Bray, T., Paoli, J., Sperberg-McQueen, C. and E.
+ Maler, "Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0
+ ((Third ed)", W3C REC REC-xml-20040204, February
+ 2004, <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-20040204>.
+
+ [REC-XML-INFOSET] Cowan, J. and R. Tobin, "XML Information Set
+ (Second Edition)", W3C REC REC-xml-infoset-
+ 20040204, February 2004,
+ <http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-xml-infoset-
+ 20040204/>.
+
+ [REC-XML-NAMES] Bray, T., Hollander, D. and A. Layman, "Namespaces
+ in XML", W3C REC REC-xml-names-19990114, January
+ 1999, <http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/REC-xml-names-
+ 19990114>.
+
+ [RFC2119] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
+ Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.
+
+
+
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+
+ [RFC2518] Goland, Y., Whitehead, E., Faizi, A., Carter, S.
+ and D. Jensen, "HTTP Extensions for Distributed
+ Authoring -- WEBDAV", RFC 2518, February 1999.
+
+ [RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
+ Masinter, L., Leach, P. and T. Berners-Lee,
+ "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC
+ 2616, June 1999.
+
+ [RFC2617] Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P., Hostetler, J.,
+ Lawrence, S., Leach, P., Luotonen, A. and L.
+ Stewart, "HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest
+ Access Authentication", RFC 2617, June 1999.
+
+ [RFC3023] Murata, M., St.Laurent, S. and D. Kohn, "XML Media
+ Types", RFC 3023, January 2001.
+
+ [RFC3253] Clemm, G., Amsden, J., Ellison, T., Kaler, C. and
+ J. Whitehead, "Versioning Extensions to WebDAV",
+ RFC 3253, March 2002.
+
+ [RFC3530] Shepler, S., Ed., Callaghan, B., Robinson, D.,
+ Thurlow, R., Beame, C., Eisler, M. and D. Noveck,
+ "Network File System (NFS) version 4 Protocol", RFC
+ 3530, April 2003.
+
+ [RFC3629] Yergeau, F., "UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO
+ 10646", STD 63, RFC 3629 November 2003.
+
+16.2. Informative References
+
+ [RFC2251] Wahl, M., Howes, T. and S. Kille, "Lightweight
+ Directory Access Protocol (v3)", RFC 2251, December
+ 1997.
+
+ [RFC2255] Howes, T. and M. Smith, "The LDAP URL Format", RFC
+ 2255, December 1997.
+
+ [UNICODE4] The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard -
+ Version 4.0", Addison-Wesley , August 2003,
+ <http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode4.0.0/>.
+ ISBN 0321185781.
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+Appendix A. WebDAV XML Document Type Definition Addendum
+
+ All XML elements defined in this Document Type Definition (DTD)
+ belong to the DAV namespace. This DTD should be viewed as an addendum
+ to the DTD provided in [RFC2518], section 23.1.
+
+ <!-- Privileges -- (Section 3)>
+
+ <!ELEMENT read EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT write EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT write-properties EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT write-content EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT unlock EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT read-acl EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT read-current-user-privilege-set EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT write-acl EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT bind EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT unbind EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT all EMPTY>
+
+ <!-- Principal Properties (Section 4) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal EMPTY>
+
+ <!ELEMENT alternate-URI-set (href*)>
+ <!ELEMENT principal-URL (href)>
+ <!ELEMENT group-member-set (href*)>
+ <!ELEMENT group-membership (href*)>
+
+ <!-- Access Control Properties (Section 5) -->
+
+ <!-- DAV:owner Property (Section 5.1) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT owner (href?)>
+
+ <!-- DAV:group Property (Section 5.2) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT group (href?)>
+
+ <!-- DAV:supported-privilege-set Property (Section 5.3) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT supported-privilege-set (supported-privilege*)>
+ <!ELEMENT supported-privilege
+ (privilege, abstract?, description, supported-privilege*)>
+
+ <!ELEMENT privilege ANY>
+ <!ELEMENT abstract EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT description #PCDATA>
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+ <!-- DAV:current-user-privilege-set Property (Section 5.4) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT current-user-privilege-set (privilege*)>
+
+ <!-- DAV:acl Property (Section 5.5) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT acl (ace)* >
+ <!ELEMENT ace ((principal | invert), (grant|deny), protected?,
+ inherited?)>
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal (href)
+ | all | authenticated | unauthenticated
+ | property | self)>
+
+ <!ELEMENT all EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT authenticated EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT unauthenticated EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT property ANY>
+ <!ELEMENT self EMPTY>
+
+ <!ELEMENT invert principal>
+
+ <!ELEMENT grant (privilege+)>
+ <!ELEMENT deny (privilege+)>
+ <!ELEMENT privilege ANY>
+
+ <!ELEMENT protected EMPTY>
+
+ <!ELEMENT inherited (href)>
+
+ <!-- DAV:acl-restrictions Property (Section 5.6) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT acl-restrictions (grant-only?, no-invert?,
+ deny-before-grant?, required-principal?)>
+
+ <!ELEMENT grant-only EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT no-invert EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT deny-before-grant EMPTY>
+
+ <!ELEMENT required-principal
+ (all? | authenticated? | unauthenticated? | self? | href*
+ |property*)>
+
+ <!-- DAV:inherited-acl-set Property (Section 5.7) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT inherited-acl-set (href*)>
+
+ <!-- DAV:principal-collection-set Property (Section 5.8) -->
+
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+ <!ELEMENT principal-collection-set (href*)>
+
+ <!-- Access Control and Existing Methods (Section 7) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT need-privileges (resource)* >
+ <!ELEMENT resource ( href, privilege )
+
+ <!-- ACL method preconditions (Section 8.1.1) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT no-ace-conflict EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT no-protected-ace-conflict EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT no-inherited-ace-conflict EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT limited-number-of-aces EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT grant-only EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT no-invert EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT deny-before-grant EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT no-abstract EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT not-supported-privilege EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT missing-required-principal EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT recognized-principal EMPTY>
+ <!ELEMENT allowed-principal EMPTY>
+
+ <!-- REPORTs (Section 9) -->
+
+ <!ELEMENT acl-principal-prop-set ANY>
+ ANY value: a sequence of one or more elements, with at most one
+ DAV:prop element.
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-match ((principal-property | self), prop?)>
+ <!ELEMENT principal-property ANY>
+ ANY value: an element whose value identifies a property. The
+ expectation is the value of the named property typically contains
+ an href element that contains the URI of a principal
+ <!ELEMENT self EMPTY>
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-property-search ((property-search+), prop?) >
+ <!ELEMENT property-search (prop, match) >
+ <!ELEMENT match #PCDATA >
+
+ <!ELEMENT principal-search-property-set (
+ principal-search-property*) >
+ <!ELEMENT principal-search-property (prop, description) >
+ <!ELEMENT description #PCDATA >
+
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+Appendix B. WebDAV Method Privilege Table (Normative)
+
+ The following table of WebDAV methods (as defined in RFC 2518, 2616,
+ and 3253) clarifies which privileges are required for access for each
+ method. Note that the privileges listed, if denied, MUST cause
+ access to be denied. However, given that a specific implementation
+ MAY define an additional custom privilege to control access to
+ existing methods, having all of the indicated privileges does not
+ mean that access will be granted. Note that lack of the indicated
+ privileges does not imply that access will be denied, since a
+ particular implementation may use a sub-privilege aggregated under
+ the indicated privilege to control access. Privileges required refer
+ to the current resource being processed unless otherwise specified.
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+ +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
+ | METHOD | PRIVILEGES |
+ +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
+ | GET | <D:read> |
+ | HEAD | <D:read> |
+ | OPTIONS | <D:read> |
+ | PUT (target exists) | <D:write-content> on target |
+ | | resource |
+ | PUT (no target exists) | <D:bind> on parent collection |
+ | | of target |
+ | PROPPATCH | <D:write-properties> |
+ | ACL | <D:write-acl> |
+ | PROPFIND | <D:read> (plus <D:read-acl> and |
+ | | <D:read-current-user-privilege- |
+ | | set> as needed) |
+ | COPY (target exists) | <D:read>, <D:write-content> and |
+ | | <D:write-properties> on target |
+ | | resource |
+ | COPY (no target exists) | <D:read>, <D:bind> on target |
+ | | collection |
+ | MOVE (no target exists) | <D:unbind> on source collection |
+ | | and <D:bind> on target |
+ | | collection |
+ | MOVE (target exists) | As above, plus <D:unbind> on |
+ | | the target collection |
+ | DELETE | <D:unbind> on parent collection |
+ | LOCK (target exists) | <D:write-content> |
+ | LOCK (no target exists) | <D:bind> on parent collection |
+ | MKCOL | <D:bind> on parent collection |
+ | UNLOCK | <D:unlock> |
+ | CHECKOUT | <D:write-properties> |
+ | CHECKIN | <D:write-properties> |
+ | REPORT | <D:read> (on all referenced |
+ | | resources) |
+ | VERSION-CONTROL | <D:write-properties> |
+ | MERGE | <D:write-content> |
+ | MKWORKSPACE | <D:write-content> on parent |
+ | | collection |
+ | BASELINE-CONTROL | <D:write-properties> and |
+ | | <D:write-content> |
+ | MKACTIVITY | <D:write-content> on parent |
+ | | collection |
+ +---------------------------------+---------------------------------+
+
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+Index
+
+ A
+ ACL method 40
+
+ C
+ Condition Names
+ DAV:allowed-principal (pre) 42
+ DAV:deny-before-grant (pre) 41
+ DAV:grant-only (pre) 41
+ DAV:limited-number-of-aces (pre) 41
+ DAV:missing-required-principal (pre) 42
+ DAV:no-abstract (pre) 41
+ DAV:no-ace-conflict (pre) 41
+ DAV:no-inherited-ace-conflict (pre) 41
+ DAV:no-invert (pre) 41
+ DAV:no-protected-ace-conflict (pre) 41
+ DAV:not-supported-privilege (pre) 42
+ DAV:number-of-matches-within-limits (post) 48, 53
+ DAV:recognized-principal (pre) 42
+
+ D
+ DAV header
+ compliance class 'access-control' 38
+ DAV:acl property 23
+ DAV:acl-principal-prop-set report 48
+ DAV:acl-restrictions property 27
+ DAV:all privilege 13
+ DAV:allowed-principal precondition 42
+ DAV:alternate-URI-set property 14
+ DAV:bind privilege 12
+ DAV:current-user-privilege-set property 21
+ DAV:deny-before-grant precondition 41
+ DAV:grant-only precondition 41
+ DAV:group property 18
+ DAV:group-member-set property 14
+ DAV:group-membership property 14
+ DAV:inherited-acl-set property 29
+ DAV:limited-number-of-aces precondition 41
+ DAV:missing-required-principal precondition 42
+ DAV:no-abstract precondition 41
+ DAV:no-ace-conflict precondition 41
+ DAV:no-inherited-ace-conflict precondition 41
+ DAV:no-invert precondition 41
+ DAV:no-protected-ace-conflict precondition 41
+ DAV:not-supported-privilege precondition 42
+ DAV:number-of-matches-within-limits postcondition 48, 53
+ DAV:owner property 15
+
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+ DAV:principal resource type 13
+ DAV:principal-collection-set property 30
+ DAV:principal-match report 50
+ DAV:principal-property-search 51
+ DAV:principal-search-property-set 56
+ DAV:principal-URL property 14
+ DAV:read privilege 10
+ DAV:read-acl privilege 11
+ DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set privilege 12
+ DAV:recognized-principal precondition 42
+ DAV:supported-privilege-set property 18
+ DAV:unbind privilege 12
+ DAV:unlock privilege 11
+ DAV:write privilege 10
+ DAV:write-acl privilege 12
+ DAV:write-content privilege 10
+ DAV:write-properties privilege 10
+
+ M
+ Methods
+ ACL 40
+
+ P
+ Privileges
+ DAV:all 13
+ DAV:bind 12
+ DAV:read 10
+ DAV:read-acl 11
+ DAV:read-current-user-privilege-set 12
+ DAV:unbind 12
+ DAV:unlock 11
+ DAV:write 10
+ DAV:write-acl 12
+ DAV:write-content 11
+ DAV:write-properties 10
+ Properties
+ DAV:acl 23
+ DAV:acl-restrictions 27
+ DAV:alternate-URI-set 14
+ DAV:current-user-privilege-set 21
+ DAV:group 18
+ DAV:group-member-set 14
+ DAV:group-membership 14
+ DAV:inherited-acl-set 29
+ DAV:owner 15
+ DAV:principal-collection-set 30
+ DAV:principal-URL 14
+ DAV:supported-privilege-set 18
+
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+ R
+ Reports
+ DAV:acl-principal-prop-set 47
+ DAV:principal-match 49
+ DAV:principal-property-search 51
+ DAV:principal-search-property-set 56
+ Resource Types
+ DAV:principal 13
+
+Authors' Addresses
+
+ Geoffrey Clemm
+ IBM
+ 20 Maguire Road
+ Lexington, MA 02421
+
+ EMail: geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com
+
+
+ Julian F. Reschke
+ greenbytes GmbH
+ Salzmannstrasse 152
+ Muenster, NW 48159
+ Germany
+
+ EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
+
+
+ Eric Sedlar
+ Oracle Corporation
+ 500 Oracle Parkway
+ Redwood Shores, CA 94065
+
+ EMail: eric.sedlar@oracle.com
+
+
+ Jim Whitehead
+ U.C. Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science
+ 1156 High Street
+ Santa Cruz, CA 95064
+
+ EMail: ejw@cse.ucsc.edu
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+Full Copyright Statement
+
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diff --git a/lib/pro_tacts/web.rb b/lib/pro_tacts/web.rb
index 0887315..06a771b 100644
--- a/lib/pro_tacts/web.rb
+++ b/lib/pro_tacts/web.rb
@@ -165,10 +165,21 @@ module ProTacts
# DAV:resourcetype, which an address book collection MUST report
# as both collection and addressbook (RFC 6352 section 5.2);
# DAV:supported-report-set (RFC 3253 section 3.1.5), which RFC
- # 6578 section 3.2 requires list sync-collection; and
- # DAV:sync-token (RFC 6578 section 4). getctag alone is not
- # standardized — an Apple CalendarServer extension in the
+ # 6578 section 3.2 requires list sync-collection;
+ # DAV:sync-token (RFC 6578 section 4); and
+ # DAV:current-user-privilege-set (RFC 3744 section 5.4), which
+ # RFC 6352 section 7 requires of a CardDAV server. getctag alone
+ # is not standardized — an Apple CalendarServer extension in the
# calendarserver.org namespace, kept because macOS polls it.
+ #
+ # The privileges are advertised before the methods granting them
+ # exist. macOS Contacts asks for this property on every poll and
+ # attempts no write without it, so claiming the privileges is
+ # what makes the client send a PUT this server can capture in
+ # log/unhandled — the point of the experiment, not an oversight.
+ # DAV:write covers PUT and PROPPATCH (RFC 3744 section 3.2),
+ # DAV:bind adding a member to the collection (section 3.9), and
+ # DAV:unbind removing one (section 3.10).
collection_response = <<~XML
<d:response>
<d:href>/dav/addressbook/</d:href>
@@ -185,6 +196,12 @@ module ProTacts
</d:supported-report-set>
<cs:getctag>#{addressbook.ctag}</cs:getctag>
<d:sync-token>#{addressbook.sync_token}</d:sync-token>
+ <d:current-user-privilege-set>
+ <d:privilege><d:read/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:write/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:bind/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:unbind/></d:privilege>
+ </d:current-user-privilege-set>
</d:prop>
<d:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</d:status>
</d:propstat>
diff --git a/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/05-propfind-addressbook-ctag/response b/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/05-propfind-addressbook-ctag/response
index e0a0a55..09f3e1d 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/05-propfind-addressbook-ctag/response
+++ b/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/05-propfind-addressbook-ctag/response
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ Content-Type: text/xml
</d:supported-report-set>
<cs:getctag>cfe366324ca3c5bb85010587e5fa778044ee67b5480e45441b562c662b7d1dc5</cs:getctag>
<d:sync-token>http://pro-tacts/sync/cfe366324ca3c5bb85010587e5fa778044ee67b5480e45441b562c662b7d1dc5</d:sync-token>
+ <d:current-user-privilege-set>
+ <d:privilege><d:read/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:write/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:bind/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:unbind/></d:privilege>
+ </d:current-user-privilege-set>
</d:prop>
<d:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</d:status>
</d:propstat>
diff --git a/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/09-propfind-addressbook-bootstrap/response b/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/09-propfind-addressbook-bootstrap/response
index 9be0034..259fb6b 100644
--- a/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/09-propfind-addressbook-bootstrap/response
+++ b/test/fixtures/macos-exchange/09-propfind-addressbook-bootstrap/response
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@ Content-Type: text/xml
</d:supported-report-set>
<cs:getctag>cfe366324ca3c5bb85010587e5fa778044ee67b5480e45441b562c662b7d1dc5</cs:getctag>
<d:sync-token>http://pro-tacts/sync/cfe366324ca3c5bb85010587e5fa778044ee67b5480e45441b562c662b7d1dc5</d:sync-token>
+ <d:current-user-privilege-set>
+ <d:privilege><d:read/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:write/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:bind/></d:privilege>
+ <d:privilege><d:unbind/></d:privilege>
+ </d:current-user-privilege-set>
</d:prop>
<d:status>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</d:status>
</d:propstat>