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#ifndef __com_sun_star_ucb_WebDAVContentProvider_idl__
#define __com_sun_star_ucb_WebDAVContentProvider_idl__

#ifndef __com_sun_star_ucb_XContentProvider_idl__
#include <com/sun/star/ucb/XContentProvider.idl>
#endif

//=============================================================================

module com { module sun { module star { module ucb {

//=============================================================================
/** The WebDAV Content Provider (DCP) implements a <type>ContentProvider</type>
    for the <type>UniversalContentBroker</type> (UCB).

	<p>It provides access to WebDAV	and standard HTTP servers. The DCP
	communicates with the server using the WebDAV protocol which is an
	extension to the HTTP protocol or using the plain HTTP protocol in case
	the server	is not WebDAV enabled.

	@see com::sun::star::ucb::Content
*/
published service WebDAVContentProvider
{
	//-------------------------------------------------------------------------
	/** provides two types of content: a Folder or Document which corresponds
	    to a collection or non-collection (nodes and leafs) in WebDAV
		respectively.

		<p>

		<b>DCP Contents</b>
		<ol>
		<li>
		A DCP Folder (<type>WebDAVFolderContent</type>) is a container for
		other DCP Folders or Documents.
		</li>
		<li>
		A DCP Document (<type>WebDAVDocumentContent</type>) is a container for
		Document data/content. The data/content may be anything, a WebDAV
		server, like an HTTP server, does not necessarily mandate what type of
		data/content may be	contained within Documents. The type of data/content
		is defined by the MediaType property which is different from the content
		type returned from the getContentType method. The MediaType property is
		mapped to the equivalent WebDAV property and the WebDAV server
		calculates the value.
		</li>
		</ol>

		<p><b>URL Scheme for DCP Contents</b>

		<p>Each DCP content has an identifier corresponding to the following
		scheme:

			<ul>
			<li>
			vnd.sun.star.webdav://host:port/&lt;path&gt; where &lt;path&gt; is
			a hierarchical path of the form	&lt;name&gt;/.../&lt;name&gt; and
			where &lt;name&gt; is a string encoded according to the URL
			conventions.
			</li>
			</ul>

		<p>It is also possible to use standard HTTP-URLs. In this case the
		implementation will determine by itself, if the requested resource
		is DAV enabled.

		<p>Examples:

		<ul>
		<li>
		vnd.sun.star.webdav://localhost/davhome/ ( a DAV collection )
		</li>
		<li>
		vnd.sun.star.webdav://dav.foo.com/Documents/report.sdw
		</li>
		<li>
		http://dav.foo.com/Documents/report.sdw
		</li>
		</ul>

		</p>
	 */
	interface com::sun::star::ucb::XContentProvider;
};

//=============================================================================

}; }; }; };

#endif