The WebDAV service uses the database user credentials in order to perform authentication and authorization. If database user and password are explicitly specified when starting the BaseX HTTP Server using the corresponding [[Startup_Options#BaseX_HTTP_Server|startup options]], WebDAV will not request additional user authentication from the client.
=Locking=
BaseX WebDAV implementation supports WebDAV locking since {{Version|7.7}} and can be utilised with clients which support this feature (e.g. [[oXygen|oXygen Editor]]). [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-6.2 EXCLUSIVE and SHARED] locks are supported, as well as [http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918#section-7 WRITE] locks.
'''Note:''' WebDAV locks are stored in a database called <code>webdav-locks</code>. Implementations should not rely on the existence of the database, since it may not be accessible in the future.
=WebDAV Clients=