CoreMedia Digital Experience Platform 8 Developer Manual, Version 7.5.45-10
Chapter 8. CoreMedia DXP 8 Editorial and Back-end Functionality | 8.6. WebDAV Support

CoreMedia Blueprint provides WebDAV support both for browsing the content repository and to create or modify content in the webdav.properties file. It is possible to access the content repository by the WebDAV web application using a browser or a connection to a network share.

To connect to the WebDAV web application using a network drive on Windows you need a certificate issued for the WebDAV server, for example *<.my-dns-hostname> (such as *.blueprint7.coremedia.com). This certificate must be part of the trusted root certificates on the client Windows machine.

Using a network drive allows you to browse the repository and to simply create content from files on your computer by drag and drop. In case of Windows you can map a network drive to the WebDAV web application. Remember that Windows only accepts connections over HTTPS and that the server certificate is part of the trusted root certificates on the client machine.

CoreMedia Blueprint's WebDAV configuration chooses the type of the created content depending on the MIME type of the files sent to the WebDAV application. The default configured types are:

Required properties like title will automatically be set by a BlueprintWebDavFileSystemListener which can be configured for the WebDAV web application.