SAP ILM – HTTP requests

The following table presents an overview of internal HTTP requests and XML DAS [SAP XML DAS] methods which are typical in an SAP WebDAV ILM environment.

Method

Description (and where applicable: distinctive feature in an SAP ILM environment)

HEAD

Existence check for resources or collections according to [RFC4918]

GET

Read resource from an archive (with support of range retrieval requests [RFC2616-14.35])

OPTIONS

Query the server about the communication abilities of a given resource or the whole server

The additional header field “SAP-ILM-Conformance” in an ImageMaster SAP ILM environment will return the value 2, which signifies BC-ILM 3.0 certification.

MKCOL

Create a collection obeying the propagation and inheritance semantics for the properties “legal hold” and “expiration date”

These two properties are always inherited from the parent collection.

PUT

Write a resource to the archive obeying the same propagation and inheritance semantics as described for MKCOL

PROPPATCH

Set and / or remove properties defined on a resource, for example:

  • setting or prolonging an expiration date
  • setting or removing the legal hold property

PROPFIND

Retrieve properties defined on a resource, for example:

  • the expiration date
  • the legal hold property

DELETE

Delete resources or collections