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Enhancements to SAS Package Retriever

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) is an emerging industry standard that is based on extensions to HTTP 1.1. It enables package publishers, programmers, and package consumers to collaborate on the development of files and collections of files on remote Web servers. It also enables consumers to retrieve packages that have been delivered to a WebDAV-compliant server.
In order to retrieve a package or a package entry from a secured WebDAV-compliant server, a package consumer must supply an HTTP user ID and an HTTP password.

An HTML file package entry can now reference additional HTML files for inclusion in an HTML file package entry. The additional files are called companion files. The Companion File option enables you to retrieve companion files and to specify the output location.
An HTML file package entry can now be delivered with a property for Character-Set Encoding. When you retrieve the package entry, you can either accept the specified encoding, or you can specify your own encoding value. Encoding is necessary only when the host architectures of the publishing host and the retrieving host are incompatible.