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| 349 | content: "Internet-Draft"; |
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| 350 | } |
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| 351 | @top-right { |
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| 352 | content: "March 2011"; |
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| 353 | } |
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| 354 | @top-center { |
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| 355 | content: "HTTP/1.1, Part 4"; |
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| 358 | content: "Fielding, et al."; |
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| 379 | </style><link rel="Contents" href="#rfc.toc"> |
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| 380 | <link rel="Author" href="#rfc.authors"> |
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| 381 | <link rel="Copyright" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice"> |
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| 382 | <link rel="Index" href="#rfc.index"> |
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| 383 | <link rel="Chapter" title="1 Introduction" href="#rfc.section.1"> |
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| 384 | <link rel="Chapter" title="2 Entity-Tags" href="#rfc.section.2"> |
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| 385 | <link rel="Chapter" title="3 Status Code Definitions" href="#rfc.section.3"> |
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| 386 | <link rel="Chapter" title="4 Weak and Strong Validators" href="#rfc.section.4"> |
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| 387 | <link rel="Chapter" title="5 Rules for When to Use Entity-tags and Last-Modified Dates" href="#rfc.section.5"> |
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| 388 | <link rel="Chapter" title="6 Header Field Definitions" href="#rfc.section.6"> |
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| 389 | <link rel="Chapter" title="7 IANA Considerations" href="#rfc.section.7"> |
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| 390 | <link rel="Chapter" title="8 Security Considerations" href="#rfc.section.8"> |
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| 391 | <link rel="Chapter" title="9 Acknowledgments" href="#rfc.section.9"> |
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| 392 | <link rel="Chapter" href="#rfc.section.10" title="10 References"> |
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| 393 | <link rel="Appendix" title="A Changes from RFC 2616" href="#rfc.section.A"> |
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| 394 | <link rel="Appendix" title="B Collected ABNF" href="#rfc.section.B"> |
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| 395 | <link rel="Appendix" title="C Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)" href="#rfc.section.C"> |
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| 397 | <link rel="schema.dct" href="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"> |
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| 398 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Fielding, R."> |
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| 399 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Gettys, J."> |
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| 400 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Mogul, J."> |
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| 401 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Frystyk, H."> |
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| 402 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Masinter, L."> |
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| 403 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Leach, P."> |
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| 404 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Berners-Lee, T."> |
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| 405 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Lafon, Y."> |
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| 406 | <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F."> |
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| 407 | <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-latest"> |
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| 408 | <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2011-03-30"> |
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| 409 | <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616"> |
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| 410 | <meta name="dct.abstract" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 4 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 4 defines request header fields for indicating conditional requests and the rules for constructing responses to those requests."> |
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| 411 | <meta name="description" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 4 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 4 defines request header fields for indicating conditional requests and the rules for constructing responses to those requests."> |
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| 412 | </head> |
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| 413 | <body> |
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| 414 | <table class="header"> |
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| 415 | <tbody> |
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| 416 | <tr> |
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| 417 | <td class="left">HTTPbis Working Group</td> |
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| 418 | <td class="right">R. Fielding, Editor</td> |
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| 419 | </tr> |
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| 420 | <tr> |
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| 421 | <td class="left">Internet-Draft</td> |
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| 422 | <td class="right">Adobe</td> |
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| 423 | </tr> |
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| 424 | <tr> |
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| 425 | <td class="left">Obsoletes: <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616">2616</a> (if approved) |
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| 426 | </td> |
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| 427 | <td class="right">J. Gettys</td> |
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| 428 | </tr> |
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| 429 | <tr> |
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| 430 | <td class="left">Intended status: Standards Track</td> |
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| 431 | <td class="right">Alcatel-Lucent</td> |
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| 432 | </tr> |
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| 433 | <tr> |
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| 434 | <td class="left">Expires: October 1, 2011</td> |
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| 435 | <td class="right">J. Mogul</td> |
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| 436 | </tr> |
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| 437 | <tr> |
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| 438 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 439 | <td class="right">HP</td> |
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| 440 | </tr> |
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| 441 | <tr> |
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| 442 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 443 | <td class="right">H. Frystyk</td> |
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| 444 | </tr> |
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| 445 | <tr> |
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| 446 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 447 | <td class="right">Microsoft</td> |
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| 448 | </tr> |
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| 449 | <tr> |
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| 450 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 451 | <td class="right">L. Masinter</td> |
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| 452 | </tr> |
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| 453 | <tr> |
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| 454 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 455 | <td class="right">Adobe</td> |
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| 456 | </tr> |
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| 457 | <tr> |
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| 458 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 459 | <td class="right">P. Leach</td> |
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| 460 | </tr> |
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| 461 | <tr> |
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| 462 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 463 | <td class="right">Microsoft</td> |
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| 464 | </tr> |
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| 465 | <tr> |
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| 466 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 467 | <td class="right">T. Berners-Lee</td> |
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| 468 | </tr> |
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| 469 | <tr> |
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| 470 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 471 | <td class="right">W3C/MIT</td> |
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| 472 | </tr> |
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| 473 | <tr> |
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| 474 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 475 | <td class="right">Y. Lafon, Editor</td> |
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| 476 | </tr> |
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| 477 | <tr> |
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| 478 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 479 | <td class="right">W3C</td> |
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| 480 | </tr> |
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| 481 | <tr> |
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| 482 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 483 | <td class="right">J. Reschke, Editor</td> |
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| 484 | </tr> |
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| 485 | <tr> |
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| 486 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 487 | <td class="right">greenbytes</td> |
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| 488 | </tr> |
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| 489 | <tr> |
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| 490 | <td class="left"></td> |
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| 491 | <td class="right">March 30, 2011</td> |
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| 492 | </tr> |
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| 493 | </tbody> |
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| 494 | </table> |
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| 495 | <p class="title">HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests<br><span class="filename">draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-latest</span></p> |
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| 496 | <h1 id="rfc.abstract"><a href="#rfc.abstract">Abstract</a></h1> |
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| 497 | <p>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information |
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| 498 | systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 4 of the |
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| 499 | seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part |
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| 500 | 4 defines request header fields for indicating conditional requests and the rules for constructing responses to those requests. |
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| 501 | </p> |
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| 502 | <h1 id="rfc.note.1"><a href="#rfc.note.1">Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)</a></h1> |
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| 503 | <p>Discussion of this draft should take place on the HTTPBIS working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org). The current issues |
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| 504 | list is at <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/3">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/3</a>> and related documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/</a>>. |
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| 505 | </p> |
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| 506 | <p>The changes in this draft are summarized in <a href="#changes.since.13" title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-13">Appendix C.15</a>. |
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| 507 | </p> |
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| 508 | <h1><a id="rfc.status" href="#rfc.status">Status of This Memo</a></h1> |
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| 509 | <p>This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79.</p> |
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| 510 | <p>Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute |
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| 511 | working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet-Drafts is at <a href="http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/">http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/</a>. |
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| 512 | </p> |
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| 513 | <p>Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other |
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| 514 | documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as “work |
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| 515 | in progress”. |
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| 516 | </p> |
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| 517 | <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on October 1, 2011.</p> |
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| 518 | <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1> |
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| 519 | <p>Copyright © 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p> |
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| 520 | <p>This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (<a href="http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info">http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info</a>) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights |
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| 521 | and restrictions with respect to this document. Code Components extracted from this document must include Simplified BSD License |
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| 522 | text as described in Section 4.e of the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as described in the Simplified |
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| 523 | BSD License. |
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| 524 | </p> |
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| 525 | <p>This document may contain material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published or made publicly available before November |
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| 526 | 10, 2008. The person(s) controlling the copyright in some of this material may not have granted the IETF Trust the right to |
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| 527 | allow modifications of such material outside the IETF Standards Process. Without obtaining an adequate license from the person(s) |
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| 528 | controlling the copyright in such materials, this document may not be modified outside the IETF Standards Process, and derivative |
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| 529 | works of it may not be created outside the IETF Standards Process, except to format it for publication as an RFC or to translate |
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| 530 | it into languages other than English. |
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| 531 | </p> |
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| 532 | <hr class="noprint"> |
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| 533 | <h1 class="np" id="rfc.toc"><a href="#rfc.toc">Table of Contents</a></h1> |
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| 534 | <ul class="toc"> |
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| 535 | <li>1. <a href="#introduction">Introduction</a><ul> |
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| 536 | <li>1.1 <a href="#intro.requirements">Requirements</a></li> |
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| 537 | <li>1.2 <a href="#notation">Syntax Notation</a><ul> |
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| 538 | <li>1.2.1 <a href="#core.rules">Core Rules</a></li> |
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| 539 | <li>1.2.2 <a href="#abnf.dependencies">ABNF Rules defined in other Parts of the Specification</a></li> |
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| 540 | </ul> |
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| 541 | </li> |
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| 542 | </ul> |
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| 543 | </li> |
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| 544 | <li>2. <a href="#entity.tags">Entity-Tags</a><ul> |
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| 545 | <li>2.1 <a href="#example.entity.tag.vs.conneg">Example: Entity-tags varying on Content-Negotiated Resources</a></li> |
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| 546 | </ul> |
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| 547 | </li> |
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| 548 | <li>3. <a href="#status.code.definitions">Status Code Definitions</a><ul> |
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| 549 | <li>3.1 <a href="#status.304">304 Not Modified</a></li> |
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| 550 | <li>3.2 <a href="#status.412">412 Precondition Failed</a></li> |
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| 551 | </ul> |
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| 552 | </li> |
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| 553 | <li>4. <a href="#weak.and.strong.validators">Weak and Strong Validators</a></li> |
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| 554 | <li>5. <a href="#rules.for.when.to.use.entity.tags.and.last-modified.dates">Rules for When to Use Entity-tags and Last-Modified Dates</a></li> |
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| 555 | <li>6. <a href="#header.fields">Header Field Definitions</a><ul> |
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| 556 | <li>6.1 <a href="#header.etag">ETag</a></li> |
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| 557 | <li>6.2 <a href="#header.if-match">If-Match</a></li> |
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| 558 | <li>6.3 <a href="#header.if-modified-since">If-Modified-Since</a></li> |
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| 559 | <li>6.4 <a href="#header.if-none-match">If-None-Match</a></li> |
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| 560 | <li>6.5 <a href="#header.if-unmodified-since">If-Unmodified-Since</a></li> |
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| 561 | <li>6.6 <a href="#header.last-modified">Last-Modified</a></li> |
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| 562 | </ul> |
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| 563 | </li> |
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| 564 | <li>7. <a href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a><ul> |
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| 565 | <li>7.1 <a href="#status.code.registration">Status Code Registration</a></li> |
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| 566 | <li>7.2 <a href="#header.field.registration">Header Field Registration</a></li> |
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| 567 | </ul> |
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| 568 | </li> |
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| 569 | <li>8. <a href="#security.considerations">Security Considerations</a></li> |
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| 570 | <li>9. <a href="#ack">Acknowledgments</a></li> |
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| 571 | <li>10. <a href="#rfc.references">References</a><ul> |
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| 572 | <li>10.1 <a href="#rfc.references.1">Normative References</a></li> |
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| 573 | <li>10.2 <a href="#rfc.references.2">Informative References</a></li> |
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| 574 | </ul> |
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| 575 | </li> |
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| 576 | <li><a href="#rfc.authors">Authors' Addresses</a></li> |
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| 577 | <li>A. <a href="#changes.from.rfc.2616">Changes from RFC 2616</a></li> |
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| 578 | <li>B. <a href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></li> |
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| 579 | <li>C. <a href="#change.log">Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)</a><ul> |
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| 580 | <li>C.1 <a href="#rfc.section.C.1">Since RFC 2616</a></li> |
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| 581 | <li>C.2 <a href="#rfc.section.C.2">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-00</a></li> |
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| 582 | <li>C.3 <a href="#rfc.section.C.3">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-01</a></li> |
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| 583 | <li>C.4 <a href="#changes.since.02">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-02</a></li> |
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| 584 | <li>C.5 <a href="#changes.since.03">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-03</a></li> |
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| 585 | <li>C.6 <a href="#changes.since.04">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-04</a></li> |
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| 586 | <li>C.7 <a href="#changes.since.05">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-05</a></li> |
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| 587 | <li>C.8 <a href="#changes.since.06">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-06</a></li> |
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| 588 | <li>C.9 <a href="#changes.since.07">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-07</a></li> |
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| 589 | <li>C.10 <a href="#changes.since.08">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-08</a></li> |
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| 590 | <li>C.11 <a href="#changes.since.09">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-09</a></li> |
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| 591 | <li>C.12 <a href="#changes.since.10">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-10</a></li> |
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| 592 | <li>C.13 <a href="#changes.since.11">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-11</a></li> |
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| 593 | <li>C.14 <a href="#changes.since.12">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-12</a></li> |
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| 594 | <li>C.15 <a href="#changes.since.13">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-13</a></li> |
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| 595 | </ul> |
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| 596 | </li> |
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| 597 | <li><a href="#rfc.index">Index</a></li> |
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| 598 | </ul> |
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| 599 | <h1 id="rfc.section.1" class="np"><a href="#rfc.section.1">1.</a> <a id="introduction" href="#introduction">Introduction</a></h1> |
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| 600 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.1">This document defines HTTP/1.1 response metadata for indicating potential changes to payload content, including modification |
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| 601 | time stamps and opaque entity-tags, and the HTTP conditional request mechanisms that allow preconditions to be placed on a |
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| 602 | request method. Conditional GET requests allow for efficient cache updates. Other conditional request methods are used to |
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| 603 | protect against overwriting or misunderstanding the state of a resource that has been changed unbeknownst to the requesting |
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| 604 | client. |
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| 605 | </p> |
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| 606 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.2"><span id="rfc.iref.s.1"></span> We use the term "<dfn>selected representation</dfn>" to refer to the current representation of the target resource that would have been selected and sent as payload in a 200 |
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| 607 | (OK) response if the same request had used the method GET and had excluded all of the conditional request header fields. The |
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| 608 | conditions found within conditional requests are evaluated on the basis of either the state of the target resource as a whole |
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| 609 | or the state of the target resource's selected representation. |
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| 610 | </p> |
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| 611 | <p id="rfc.section.1.p.3">This document is currently disorganized in order to minimize the changes between drafts and enable reviewers to see the smaller |
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| 612 | errata changes. A future draft will reorganize the sections to better reflect the content. In particular, the sections on |
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| 613 | resource metadata will be discussed first and then followed by each conditional request header field, concluding with a definition |
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| 614 | of precedence and the expectation of ordering strong validator checks before weak validator checks. It is likely that more |
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| 615 | content from <a href="#Part6" id="rfc.xref.Part6.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching">[Part6]</cite></a> will migrate to this part, where appropriate. The current mess reflects how widely dispersed these topics and associated requirements |
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| 616 | had become in <a href="#RFC2616" id="rfc.xref.RFC2616.1"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1">[RFC2616]</cite></a>. |
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| 617 | </p> |
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| 618 | <h2 id="rfc.section.1.1"><a href="#rfc.section.1.1">1.1</a> <a id="intro.requirements" href="#intro.requirements">Requirements</a></h2> |
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| 619 | <p id="rfc.section.1.1.p.1">The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" |
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| 620 | in this document are to be interpreted as described in <a href="#RFC2119" id="rfc.xref.RFC2119.1"><cite title="Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels">[RFC2119]</cite></a>. |
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| 621 | </p> |
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| 622 | <p id="rfc.section.1.1.p.2">An implementation is not compliant if it fails to satisfy one or more of the "MUST" or "REQUIRED" level requirements for the |
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| 623 | protocols it implements. An implementation that satisfies all the "MUST" or "REQUIRED" level and all the "SHOULD" level requirements |
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| 624 | for its protocols is said to be "unconditionally compliant"; one that satisfies all the "MUST" level requirements but not |
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| 625 | all the "SHOULD" level requirements for its protocols is said to be "conditionally compliant". |
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| 626 | </p> |
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| 627 | <h2 id="rfc.section.1.2"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2">1.2</a> <a id="notation" href="#notation">Syntax Notation</a></h2> |
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| 628 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.p.1">This specification uses the ABNF syntax defined in <a href="p1-messaging.html#notation" title="Syntax Notation">Section 1.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a> (which extends the syntax defined in <a href="#RFC5234" id="rfc.xref.RFC5234.1"><cite title="Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF">[RFC5234]</cite></a> with a list rule). <a href="#collected.abnf" title="Collected ABNF">Appendix B</a> shows the collected ABNF, with the list rule expanded. |
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| 629 | </p> |
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| 630 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.p.2">The following core rules are included by reference, as defined in <a href="#RFC5234" id="rfc.xref.RFC5234.2"><cite title="Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF">[RFC5234]</cite></a>, <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234#appendix-B.1">Appendix B.1</a>: ALPHA (letters), CR (carriage return), CRLF (CR LF), CTL (controls), DIGIT (decimal 0-9), DQUOTE (double quote), HEXDIG |
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| 631 | (hexadecimal 0-9/A-F/a-f), LF (line feed), OCTET (any 8-bit sequence of data), SP (space), VCHAR (any visible USASCII character), |
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| 632 | and WSP (whitespace). |
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| 633 | </p> |
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| 634 | <h3 id="rfc.section.1.2.1"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2.1">1.2.1</a> <a id="core.rules" href="#core.rules">Core Rules</a></h3> |
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| 635 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.1.p.1">The core rules below are defined in <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.2"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>: |
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| 636 | </p> |
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| 637 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.1"></div><pre class="inline"> <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> = <quoted-string, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.3"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a>> |
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| 638 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> = <OWS, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.4"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#basic.rules" title="Basic Rules">Section 1.2.2</a>> |
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| 639 | </pre><h3 id="rfc.section.1.2.2"><a href="#rfc.section.1.2.2">1.2.2</a> <a id="abnf.dependencies" href="#abnf.dependencies">ABNF Rules defined in other Parts of the Specification</a></h3> |
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| 640 | <p id="rfc.section.1.2.2.p.1">The ABNF rules below are defined in other parts:</p> |
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| 641 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.2"></div><pre class="inline"> <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> = <HTTP-date, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.5"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#date.time.formats.full.date" title="Date/Time Formats: Full Date">Section 6.1</a>> |
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| 642 | </pre><h1 id="rfc.section.2"><a href="#rfc.section.2">2.</a> <a id="entity.tags" href="#entity.tags">Entity-Tags</a></h1> |
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| 643 | <p id="rfc.section.2.p.1">Entity-tags are used for comparing two or more representations of the same resource. HTTP/1.1 uses entity-tags in the ETag |
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| 644 | (<a href="#header.etag" id="rfc.xref.header.etag.1" title="ETag">Section 6.1</a>), If-Match (<a href="#header.if-match" id="rfc.xref.header.if-match.1" title="If-Match">Section 6.2</a>), If-None-Match (<a href="#header.if-none-match" id="rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.1" title="If-None-Match">Section 6.4</a>), and If-Range (<a href="p5-range.html#header.if-range" title="If-Range">Section 5.3</a> of <a href="#Part5" id="rfc.xref.Part5.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses">[Part5]</cite></a>) header fields. The definition of how they are used and compared as cache validators is in <a href="#weak.and.strong.validators" title="Weak and Strong Validators">Section 4</a>. An entity-tag consists of an opaque quoted string, possibly prefixed by a weakness indicator. |
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| 645 | </p> |
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| 646 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.3"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.1"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.2"></span><span id="rfc.iref.g.3"></span> <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> = [ <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">weak</a> ] <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">opaque-tag</a> |
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| 647 | <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">weak</a> = %x57.2F ; "W/", case-sensitive |
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| 648 | <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">opaque-tag</a> = <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> |
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| 649 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.2.p.3">A "strong entity-tag" <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be shared by two representations of a resource only if they are equivalent by octet equality. |
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| 650 | </p> |
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| 651 | <p id="rfc.section.2.p.4">A "weak entity-tag", indicated by the "W/" prefix, <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be shared by two representations of a resource. A weak entity-tag can only be used for weak comparison. |
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| 652 | </p> |
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| 653 | <p id="rfc.section.2.p.5">Cache entries might persist for arbitrarily long periods, regardless of expiration times, so it is inappropriate to expect |
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| 654 | that a cache will never again attempt to validate an entry using a validator that it obtained at some point in the past. A |
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| 655 | strong entity-tag <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be unique across all versions of all representations associated with a particular resource over time. However, there is no |
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| 656 | implication of uniqueness across entity-tags of different resources (i.e., the same entity-tag value might be in use for representations |
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| 657 | of multiple resources at the same time and does not imply that those representations are equivalent). |
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| 658 | </p> |
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| 659 | <h2 id="rfc.section.2.1"><a href="#rfc.section.2.1">2.1</a> <a id="example.entity.tag.vs.conneg" href="#example.entity.tag.vs.conneg">Example: Entity-tags varying on Content-Negotiated Resources</a></h2> |
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| 660 | <p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.1">Consider a resource that is subject to content negotiation (<a href="p3-payload.html#content.negotiation" title="Content Negotiation">Section 5</a> of <a href="#Part3" id="rfc.xref.Part3.1"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation">[Part3]</cite></a>), and where the representations returned upon a GET request vary based on the Accept-Encoding request header field (<a href="p3-payload.html#header.accept-encoding" title="Accept-Encoding">Section 6.3</a> of <a href="#Part3" id="rfc.xref.Part3.2"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation">[Part3]</cite></a>): |
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| 661 | </p> |
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| 662 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.4"></div> |
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| 663 | <p>>> Request:</p><pre class="text2">GET /index HTTP/1.1 |
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| 664 | Host: www.example.com |
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| 665 | Accept-Encoding: gzip |
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| 666 | |
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| 667 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.3">In this case, the response might or might not use the gzip content coding. If it does not, the response might look like:</p> |
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| 668 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.5"></div> |
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| 669 | <p>>> Response:</p><pre class="text">HTTP/1.1 200 OK |
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| 670 | Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2010 00:05:00 GMT |
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| 671 | ETag: "123-a" |
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| 672 | Content-Length: 70 |
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| 673 | Vary: Accept-Encoding |
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| 674 | Content-Type: text/plain |
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| 675 | |
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| 676 | <span id="exbody">Hello World! |
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| 677 | Hello World! |
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| 678 | Hello World! |
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| 679 | Hello World! |
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| 680 | Hello World! |
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| 681 | </span></pre><p id="rfc.section.2.1.p.5">An alternative representation that does use gzip content coding would be:</p> |
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| 682 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.6"></div> |
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| 683 | <p>>> Response:</p><pre class="text">HTTP/1.1 200 OK |
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| 684 | Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2010 00:05:00 GMT |
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| 685 | ETag: "123-b" |
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| 686 | Content-Length: 43 |
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| 687 | Vary: Accept-Encoding |
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| 688 | Content-Type: text/plain |
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| 689 | Content-Encoding: gzip |
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| 690 | |
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| 691 | <em>...binary data...</em></pre><div class="note" id="rfc.section.2.1.p.7"> |
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| 692 | <p> <b>Note:</b> Content codings are a property of the representation, so therefore an entity-tag of an encoded representation must be distinct |
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| 693 | from an unencoded representation to prevent conflicts during cache updates and range requests. In contrast, transfer codings |
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| 694 | (<a href="p1-messaging.html#transfer.codings" title="Transfer Codings">Section 6.2</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.6"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>) apply only during message transfer and do not require distinct entity-tags. |
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| 695 | </p> |
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| 696 | </div> |
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| 697 | <h1 id="rfc.section.3"><a href="#rfc.section.3">3.</a> <a id="status.code.definitions" href="#status.code.definitions">Status Code Definitions</a></h1> |
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| 698 | <div id="rfc.iref.4"></div> |
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| 699 | <div id="rfc.iref.s.2"></div> |
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| 700 | <h2 id="rfc.section.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.3.1">3.1</a> <a id="status.304" href="#status.304">304 Not Modified</a></h2> |
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| 701 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.1">The 304 status code indicates that a conditional GET request has been received and would have resulted in a 200 (OK) response |
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| 702 | if it were not for the fact that the condition has evaluated to false. In other words, there is no need for the server to |
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| 703 | transfer a representation of the target resource because the client's request indicates that it already has a valid representation, |
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| 704 | as indicated by the 304 response header fields, and is therefore redirecting the client to make use of that stored representation |
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| 705 | as if it were the payload of a 200 response. The 304 response <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> contain a message-body, and thus is always terminated by the first empty line after the header fields. |
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| 706 | </p> |
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| 707 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.2">A 304 response <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> include a Date header field (<a href="p1-messaging.html#header.date" title="Date">Section 9.3</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.7"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>) unless its omission is required by <a href="p1-messaging.html#clockless.origin.server.operation" title="Clockless Origin Server Operation">Section 9.3.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.8"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>. If a 200 response to the same request would have included any of the header fields Cache-Control, Content-Location, ETag, |
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| 708 | Expires, Last-Modified, or Vary, then those same header fields <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be sent in a 304 response. |
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| 709 | </p> |
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| 710 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.3">Since the goal of a 304 response is to minimize information transfer when the recipient already has one or more cached representations, |
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| 711 | the response <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> include representation metadata other than the above listed fields unless said metadata exists for the purpose of guiding |
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| 712 | cache updates (e.g., future HTTP extensions). |
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| 713 | </p> |
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| 714 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.4">If the recipient of a 304 response does not have a cached representation corresponding to the entity-tag indicated by the |
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| 715 | 304 response, then the recipient <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> use the 304 to update its own cache. If this conditional request originated with an outbound client, such as a user agent |
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| 716 | with its own cache sending a conditional GET to a shared proxy, then the 304 response <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be forwarded to the outbound client. Otherwise, the recipient <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> disregard the 304 response and repeat the request without any preconditions. |
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| 717 | </p> |
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| 718 | <p id="rfc.section.3.1.p.5">If a cache uses a received 304 response to update a cache entry, the cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> update the entry to reflect any new field values given in the response. |
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| 719 | </p> |
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| 720 | <div id="rfc.iref.5"></div> |
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| 721 | <div id="rfc.iref.s.3"></div> |
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| 722 | <h2 id="rfc.section.3.2"><a href="#rfc.section.3.2">3.2</a> <a id="status.412" href="#status.412">412 Precondition Failed</a></h2> |
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| 723 | <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.1">The 412 status code indicates that one or more preconditions given in the request header fields evaluated to false when tested |
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| 724 | on the server. This response code allows the client to place preconditions on the current resource state (its current representations |
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| 725 | and metadata) and thus prevent the request method from being applied if the target resource is in an unexpected state. |
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| 726 | </p> |
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| 727 | <h1 id="rfc.section.4"><a href="#rfc.section.4">4.</a> <a id="weak.and.strong.validators" href="#weak.and.strong.validators">Weak and Strong Validators</a></h1> |
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| 728 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.1">Since both origin servers and caches will compare two validators to decide if they represent the same or different representations, |
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| 729 | one normally would expect that if the representation (including both representation header fields and representation body) |
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| 730 | changes in any way, then the associated validator would change as well. If this is true, then we call this validator a "strong |
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| 731 | validator". One example of a strong validator is an integer that is incremented in stable storage every time a representation |
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| 732 | is changed. |
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| 733 | </p> |
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| 734 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.2">However, there might be cases when a server prefers to change the validator only when it desires cached representations to |
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| 735 | be invalidated. For example, the representation of a weather report that changes in content every second, based on dynamic |
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| 736 | measurements, might be grouped into sets of equivalent representations (from the origin server's perspective) in order to |
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| 737 | allow cached representations to be valid for a reasonable period of time (perhaps adjusted dynamically based on server load |
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| 738 | or weather quality). A validator that does not always change when the representation changes is a "weak validator". |
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| 739 | </p> |
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| 740 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.3">An entity-tag is normally a strong validator, but the protocol provides a mechanism to tag an entity-tag as "weak". One can |
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| 741 | think of a strong validator as part of an identifier for a specific representation, whereas a weak validator is part of an |
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| 742 | identifier for a set of equivalent representations (where this notion of equivalence is entirely governed by the origin server |
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| 743 | and beyond the scope of this specification). |
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| 744 | </p> |
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| 745 | <ul class="empty"> |
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| 746 | <li>A representation's modification time, if defined with only one-second resolution, could be a weak validator, since it is possible |
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| 747 | that the representation might be modified twice during a single second. |
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| 748 | </li> |
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| 749 | <li>Support for weak validators is optional. However, weak validators allow for more efficient caching of equivalent objects; |
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| 750 | for example, a hit counter on a site is probably good enough if it is updated every few days or weeks, and any value during |
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| 751 | that period is likely "good enough" to be equivalent. |
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| 752 | </li> |
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| 753 | </ul> |
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| 754 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.4">A strong entity-tag <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> change whenever the associated representation changes in any way. A weak entity-tag <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> change whenever the origin server considers prior representations to be unacceptable as a substitute for the current representation. |
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| 755 | In other words, a weak entity tag <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> change whenever the origin server wants caches to invalidate old responses. |
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| 756 | </p> |
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| 757 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.5">A "use" of a validator is either when a client generates a request and includes the validator in a validating header field, |
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| 758 | or when a server compares two validators. |
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| 759 | </p> |
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| 760 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.6">Strong validators are usable in any context. Weak validators are only usable in contexts that do not depend on exact equality |
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| 761 | of a representation. For example, either kind is usable for a normal conditional GET. However, only a strong validator is |
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| 762 | usable for range retrieval (<a href="#Part5" id="rfc.xref.Part5.2"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses">[Part5]</cite></a>), since otherwise the client might end up with an internally inconsistent representation. Clients <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> use weak validators in range requests. |
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| 763 | </p> |
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| 764 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.7">The only function that HTTP/1.1 defines on validators is comparison. There are two validator comparison functions, depending |
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| 765 | on whether the comparison context allows the use of weak validators or not: |
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| 766 | </p> |
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| 767 | <ul> |
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| 768 | <li>The strong comparison function: in order to be considered equal, both opaque-tags <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be identical character-by-character, and both <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> be weak. |
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| 769 | </li> |
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| 770 | <li>The weak comparison function: in order to be considered equal, both opaque-tags <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be identical character-by-character, but either or both of them <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be tagged as "weak" without affecting the result. |
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| 771 | </li> |
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| 772 | </ul> |
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| 773 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.8">The example below shows the results for a set of entity-tag pairs, and both the weak and strong comparison function results:</p> |
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| 774 | <div id="rfc.table.u.1"> |
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| 775 | <table class="tt full left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> |
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| 776 | <thead> |
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| 777 | <tr> |
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| 778 | <th>ETag 1</th> |
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| 779 | <th>ETag 2</th> |
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| 780 | <th>Strong Comparison</th> |
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| 781 | <th>Weak Comparison</th> |
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| 782 | </tr> |
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| 783 | </thead> |
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| 784 | <tbody> |
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| 785 | <tr> |
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| 786 | <td class="left">W/"1"</td> |
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| 787 | <td class="left">W/"1"</td> |
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| 788 | <td class="left">no match</td> |
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| 789 | <td class="left">match</td> |
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| 790 | </tr> |
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| 791 | <tr> |
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| 792 | <td class="left">W/"1"</td> |
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| 793 | <td class="left">W/"2"</td> |
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| 794 | <td class="left">no match</td> |
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| 795 | <td class="left">no match</td> |
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| 796 | </tr> |
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| 797 | <tr> |
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| 798 | <td class="left">W/"1"</td> |
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| 799 | <td class="left">"1"</td> |
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| 800 | <td class="left">no match</td> |
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| 801 | <td class="left">match</td> |
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| 802 | </tr> |
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| 803 | <tr> |
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| 804 | <td class="left">"1"</td> |
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| 805 | <td class="left">"1"</td> |
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| 806 | <td class="left">match</td> |
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| 807 | <td class="left">match</td> |
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| 808 | </tr> |
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| 809 | </tbody> |
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| 810 | </table> |
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| 811 | </div> |
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| 812 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.9">An entity-tag is strong unless it is explicitly tagged as weak. <a href="#entity.tags" title="Entity-Tags">Section 2</a> gives the syntax for entity-tags. |
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| 813 | </p> |
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| 814 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.10">A Last-Modified time, when used as a validator in a request, is implicitly weak unless it is possible to deduce that it is |
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| 815 | strong, using the following rules: |
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| 816 | </p> |
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| 817 | <ul> |
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| 818 | <li>The validator is being compared by an origin server to the actual current validator for the representation and,</li> |
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| 819 | <li>That origin server reliably knows that the associated representation did not change twice during the second covered by the |
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| 820 | presented validator. |
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| 821 | </li> |
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| 822 | </ul> |
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| 823 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.11">or </p> |
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| 824 | <ul> |
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| 825 | <li>The validator is about to be used by a client in an If-Modified-Since or If-Unmodified-Since header field, because the client |
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| 826 | has a cache entry for the associated representation, and |
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| 827 | </li> |
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| 828 | <li>That cache entry includes a Date value, which gives the time when the origin server sent the original response, and</li> |
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| 829 | <li>The presented Last-Modified time is at least 60 seconds before the Date value.</li> |
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| 830 | </ul> |
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| 831 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.12">or </p> |
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| 832 | <ul> |
|---|
| 833 | <li>The validator is being compared by an intermediate cache to the validator stored in its cache entry for the representation, |
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| 834 | and |
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| 835 | </li> |
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| 836 | <li>That cache entry includes a Date value, which gives the time when the origin server sent the original response, and</li> |
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| 837 | <li>The presented Last-Modified time is at least 60 seconds before the Date value.</li> |
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| 838 | </ul> |
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| 839 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.13">This method relies on the fact that if two different responses were sent by the origin server during the same second, but |
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| 840 | both had the same Last-Modified time, then at least one of those responses would have a Date value equal to its Last-Modified |
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| 841 | time. The arbitrary 60-second limit guards against the possibility that the Date and Last-Modified values are generated from |
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| 842 | different clocks, or at somewhat different times during the preparation of the response. An implementation <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> use a value larger than 60 seconds, if it is believed that 60 seconds is too short. |
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| 843 | </p> |
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| 844 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.14">If a client wishes to perform a sub-range retrieval on a value for which it has only a Last-Modified time and no opaque validator, |
|---|
| 845 | it <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> do this only if the Last-Modified time is strong in the sense described here. |
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| 846 | </p> |
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| 847 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.15">A cache or origin server receiving a conditional range request (<a href="#Part5" id="rfc.xref.Part5.3"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses">[Part5]</cite></a>) <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> use the strong comparison function to evaluate the condition. |
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| 848 | </p> |
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| 849 | <p id="rfc.section.4.p.16">These rules allow HTTP/1.1 caches and clients to safely perform sub-range retrievals on values that have been obtained from |
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| 850 | HTTP/1.0 servers. |
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| 851 | </p> |
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| 852 | <h1 id="rfc.section.5"><a href="#rfc.section.5">5.</a> <a id="rules.for.when.to.use.entity.tags.and.last-modified.dates" href="#rules.for.when.to.use.entity.tags.and.last-modified.dates">Rules for When to Use Entity-tags and Last-Modified Dates</a></h1> |
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| 853 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.1">We adopt a set of rules and recommendations for origin servers, clients, and caches regarding when various validator types |
|---|
| 854 | ought to be used, and for what purposes. |
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| 855 | </p> |
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| 856 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.2">HTTP/1.1 origin servers: </p> |
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| 857 | <ul> |
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| 858 | <li><em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> send an entity-tag validator unless it is not feasible to generate one. |
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| 859 | </li> |
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| 860 | <li><em class="bcp14">MAY</em> send a weak entity-tag instead of a strong entity-tag, if performance considerations support the use of weak entity-tags, |
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| 861 | or if it is unfeasible to send a strong entity-tag. |
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| 862 | </li> |
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| 863 | <li><em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> send a Last-Modified value if it is feasible to send one. |
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| 864 | </li> |
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| 865 | </ul> |
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| 866 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.3">In other words, the preferred behavior for an HTTP/1.1 origin server is to send both a strong entity-tag and a Last-Modified |
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| 867 | value. |
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| 868 | </p> |
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| 869 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.4">HTTP/1.1 clients: </p> |
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| 870 | <ul> |
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| 871 | <li><em class="bcp14">MUST</em> use that entity-tag in any cache-conditional request (using If-Match or If-None-Match) if an entity-tag has been provided |
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| 872 | by the origin server. |
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| 873 | </li> |
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| 874 | <li><em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> use the Last-Modified value in non-subrange cache-conditional requests (using If-Modified-Since) if only a Last-Modified value |
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| 875 | has been provided by the origin server. |
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| 876 | </li> |
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| 877 | <li><em class="bcp14">MAY</em> use the Last-Modified value in subrange cache-conditional requests (using If-Unmodified-Since) if only a Last-Modified value |
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| 878 | has been provided by an HTTP/1.0 origin server. The user agent <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> provide a way to disable this, in case of difficulty. |
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| 879 | </li> |
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| 880 | <li><em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> use both validators in cache-conditional requests if both an entity-tag and a Last-Modified value have been provided by the |
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| 881 | origin server. This allows both HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1 caches to respond appropriately. |
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| 882 | </li> |
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| 883 | </ul> |
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| 884 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.5">An HTTP/1.1 origin server, upon receiving a conditional request that includes both a Last-Modified date (e.g., in an If-Modified-Since |
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| 885 | or If-Unmodified-Since header field) and one or more entity-tags (e.g., in an If-Match, If-None-Match, or If-Range header |
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| 886 | field) as cache validators, <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> return a response status code of 304 (Not Modified) unless doing so is consistent with all of the conditional header fields |
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| 887 | in the request. |
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| 888 | </p> |
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| 889 | <p id="rfc.section.5.p.6">An HTTP/1.1 caching proxy, upon receiving a conditional request that includes both a Last-Modified date and one or more entity-tags |
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| 890 | as cache validators, <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> return a locally cached response to the client unless that cached response is consistent with all of the conditional header |
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| 891 | fields in the request. |
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| 892 | </p> |
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| 893 | <ul class="empty"> |
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| 894 | <li> <b>Note:</b> The general principle behind these rules is that HTTP/1.1 servers and clients ought to transmit as much non-redundant information |
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| 895 | as is available in their responses and requests. HTTP/1.1 systems receiving this information will make the most conservative |
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| 896 | assumptions about the validators they receive. |
|---|
| 897 | </li> |
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| 898 | <li>HTTP/1.0 clients and caches might ignore entity-tags. Generally, last-modified values received or used by these systems will |
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| 899 | support transparent and efficient caching, and so HTTP/1.1 origin servers should provide Last-Modified values. In those rare |
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| 900 | cases where the use of a Last-Modified value as a validator by an HTTP/1.0 system could result in a serious problem, then |
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| 901 | HTTP/1.1 origin servers should not provide one. |
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| 902 | </li> |
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| 903 | </ul> |
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| 904 | <h1 id="rfc.section.6"><a href="#rfc.section.6">6.</a> <a id="header.fields" href="#header.fields">Header Field Definitions</a></h1> |
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| 905 | <p id="rfc.section.6.p.1">This section defines the syntax and semantics of HTTP/1.1 header fields related to conditional requests.</p> |
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| 906 | <div id="rfc.iref.e.1"></div> |
|---|
| 907 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.1"></div> |
|---|
| 908 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.1"><a href="#rfc.section.6.1">6.1</a> <a id="header.etag" href="#header.etag">ETag</a></h2> |
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| 909 | <p id="rfc.section.6.1.p.1">The "ETag" header field provides the current value of the entity-tag (see <a href="#entity.tags" title="Entity-Tags">Section 2</a>) for one representation of the target resource. An entity-tag is intended for use as a resource-local identifier for differentiating |
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| 910 | between representations of the same resource that vary over time or via content negotiation (see <a href="#weak.and.strong.validators" title="Weak and Strong Validators">Section 4</a>). |
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| 911 | </p> |
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| 912 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.7"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.4"></span> <a href="#header.etag" class="smpl">ETag</a> = <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> |
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| 913 | </pre><div id="rfc.figure.u.8"></div> |
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| 914 | <p>Examples:</p> <pre class="text"> ETag: "xyzzy" |
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| 915 | ETag: W/"xyzzy" |
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| 916 | ETag: "" |
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| 917 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.1.p.4">An entity-tag provides an "opaque" cache validator that allows for more reliable validation than modification dates in situations |
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| 918 | where it is inconvenient to store modification dates, where the one-second resolution of HTTP date values is not sufficient, |
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| 919 | or where the origin server wishes to avoid certain paradoxes that might arise from the use of modification dates. |
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| 920 | </p> |
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| 921 | <p id="rfc.section.6.1.p.5">The principle behind entity-tags is that only the service author knows the semantics of a resource well enough to select an |
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| 922 | appropriate cache validation mechanism, and the specification of any validator comparison function more complex than byte-equality |
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| 923 | would open up a can of worms. Thus, comparisons of any other header fields (except Last-Modified, for compatibility with HTTP/1.0) |
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| 924 | are never used for purposes of validating a cache entry. |
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| 925 | </p> |
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| 926 | <div id="rfc.iref.i.1"></div> |
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| 927 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.2"></div> |
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| 928 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.2"><a href="#rfc.section.6.2">6.2</a> <a id="header.if-match" href="#header.if-match">If-Match</a></h2> |
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| 929 | <p id="rfc.section.6.2.p.1">The "If-Match" header field <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be used to make a request method conditional on the current existence or value of an entity-tag for one or more representations |
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| 930 | of the target resource. If-Match is generally useful for resource update requests, such as PUT requests, as a means for protecting |
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| 931 | against accidental overwrites when multiple clients are acting in parallel on the same resource (i.e., the "lost update" problem). |
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| 932 | An If-Match field-value of "*" places the precondition on the existence of any current representation for the target resource. |
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| 933 | </p> |
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| 934 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.9"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.5"></span> <a href="#header.if-match" class="smpl">If-Match</a> = "*" / 1#<a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> |
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| 935 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.2.p.3">If any of the entity-tags listed in the If-Match field value match the entity-tag of the selected representation for the target |
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| 936 | resource, or if "*" is given and any current representation exists for the target resource, then the server <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> perform the request method as if the If-Match header field was not present. |
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| 937 | </p> |
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| 938 | <p id="rfc.section.6.2.p.4">If none of the entity-tags match, or if "*" is given and no current representation exists, the server <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> perform the requested method. Instead, the server <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> respond with the 412 (Precondition Failed) status code. |
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| 939 | </p> |
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| 940 | <p id="rfc.section.6.2.p.5">If the request would, without the If-Match header field, result in anything other than a 2xx or 412 status code, then the |
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| 941 | If-Match header field <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be ignored. |
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| 942 | </p> |
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| 943 | <p id="rfc.section.6.2.p.6">Examples:</p> |
|---|
| 944 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.10"></div><pre class="text"> If-Match: "xyzzy" |
|---|
| 945 | If-Match: "xyzzy", "r2d2xxxx", "c3piozzzz" |
|---|
| 946 | If-Match: * |
|---|
| 947 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.2.p.8">The result of a request having both an If-Match header field and either an If-None-Match or an If-Modified-Since header fields |
|---|
| 948 | is undefined by this specification. |
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| 949 | </p> |
|---|
| 950 | <div id="rfc.iref.i.2"></div> |
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| 951 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.3"></div> |
|---|
| 952 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.3"><a href="#rfc.section.6.3">6.3</a> <a id="header.if-modified-since" href="#header.if-modified-since">If-Modified-Since</a></h2> |
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| 953 | <p id="rfc.section.6.3.p.1">The "If-Modified-Since" header field <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be used to make a request method conditional by modification date: if the selected representation has not been modified since |
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| 954 | the time specified in this field, then do not perform the request method; instead, respond as detailed below. |
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| 955 | </p> |
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| 956 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.11"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.6"></span> <a href="#header.if-modified-since" class="smpl">If-Modified-Since</a> = <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> |
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| 957 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.3.p.3">An example of the field is:</p> |
|---|
| 958 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.12"></div><pre class="text"> If-Modified-Since: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 19:43:31 GMT |
|---|
| 959 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.3.p.5">A GET method with an If-Modified-Since header field and no Range header field requests that the selected representation be |
|---|
| 960 | transferred only if it has been modified since the date given by the If-Modified-Since header field. The algorithm for determining |
|---|
| 961 | this includes the following cases: |
|---|
| 962 | </p> |
|---|
| 963 | <ol> |
|---|
| 964 | <li>If the request would normally result in anything other than a 200 (OK) status code, or if the passed If-Modified-Since date |
|---|
| 965 | is invalid, the response is exactly the same as for a normal GET. A date which is later than the server's current time is |
|---|
| 966 | invalid. |
|---|
| 967 | </li> |
|---|
| 968 | <li>If the selected representation has been modified since the If-Modified-Since date, the response is exactly the same as for |
|---|
| 969 | a normal GET. |
|---|
| 970 | </li> |
|---|
| 971 | <li>If the selected representation has not been modified since a valid If-Modified-Since date, the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> return a 304 (Not Modified) response. |
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| 972 | </li> |
|---|
| 973 | </ol> |
|---|
| 974 | <p id="rfc.section.6.3.p.6">The purpose of this feature is to allow efficient updates of cached information with a minimum amount of transaction overhead. </p> |
|---|
| 975 | <ul class="empty"> |
|---|
| 976 | <li> <b>Note:</b> The Range header field modifies the meaning of If-Modified-Since; see <a href="p5-range.html#header.range" title="Range">Section 5.4</a> of <a href="#Part5" id="rfc.xref.Part5.4"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses">[Part5]</cite></a> for full details. |
|---|
| 977 | </li> |
|---|
| 978 | <li> <b>Note:</b> If-Modified-Since times are interpreted by the server, whose clock might not be synchronized with the client. |
|---|
| 979 | </li> |
|---|
| 980 | <li> <b>Note:</b> When handling an If-Modified-Since header field, some servers will use an exact date comparison function, rather than a less-than |
|---|
| 981 | function, for deciding whether to send a 304 (Not Modified) response. To get best results when sending an If-Modified-Since |
|---|
| 982 | header field for cache validation, clients are advised to use the exact date string received in a previous Last-Modified header |
|---|
| 983 | field whenever possible. |
|---|
| 984 | </li> |
|---|
| 985 | <li> <b>Note:</b> If a client uses an arbitrary date in the If-Modified-Since header field instead of a date taken from the Last-Modified header |
|---|
| 986 | field for the same request, the client needs to be aware that this date is interpreted in the server's understanding of time. |
|---|
| 987 | Unsynchronized clocks and rounding problems, due to the different encodings of time between the client and server, are concerns. |
|---|
| 988 | This includes the possibility of race conditions if the document has changed between the time it was first requested and the |
|---|
| 989 | If-Modified-Since date of a subsequent request, and the possibility of clock-skew-related problems if the If-Modified-Since |
|---|
| 990 | date is derived from the client's clock without correction to the server's clock. Corrections for different time bases between |
|---|
| 991 | client and server are at best approximate due to network latency. |
|---|
| 992 | </li> |
|---|
| 993 | </ul> |
|---|
| 994 | <p id="rfc.section.6.3.p.7">The result of a request having both an If-Modified-Since header field and either an If-Match or an If-Unmodified-Since header |
|---|
| 995 | fields is undefined by this specification. |
|---|
| 996 | </p> |
|---|
| 997 | <div id="rfc.iref.i.3"></div> |
|---|
| 998 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.4"></div> |
|---|
| 999 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.4"><a href="#rfc.section.6.4">6.4</a> <a id="header.if-none-match" href="#header.if-none-match">If-None-Match</a></h2> |
|---|
| 1000 | <p id="rfc.section.6.4.p.1">The "If-None-Match" header field <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be used to make a request method conditional on not matching any of the current entity-tag values for representations of the |
|---|
| 1001 | target resource. If-None-Match is primarily used in conditional GET requests to enable efficient updates of cached information |
|---|
| 1002 | with a minimum amount of transaction overhead. A client that has one or more representations previously obtained from the |
|---|
| 1003 | target resource can send If-None-Match with a list of the associated entity-tags in the hope of receiving a 304 response if |
|---|
| 1004 | at least one of those representations matches the selected representation. |
|---|
| 1005 | </p> |
|---|
| 1006 | <p id="rfc.section.6.4.p.2">If-None-Match MAY also be used with a value of "*" to prevent an unsafe request method (e.g., PUT) from inadvertently modifying |
|---|
| 1007 | an existing representation of the target resource when the client believes that the resource does not have a current representation. |
|---|
| 1008 | This is a variation on the "lost update" problem that might arise if more than one client attempts to create an initial representation |
|---|
| 1009 | for the target resource. |
|---|
| 1010 | </p> |
|---|
| 1011 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.13"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.7"></span> <a href="#header.if-none-match" class="smpl">If-None-Match</a> = "*" / 1#<a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> |
|---|
| 1012 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.4.p.4">If any of the entity-tags listed in the If-None-Match field-value match the entity-tag of the selected representation, or |
|---|
| 1013 | if "*" is given and any current representation exists for that resource, then the server <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> perform the requested method. Instead, if the request method was GET or HEAD, the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> respond with a 304 (Not Modified) status code, including the cache-related header fields (particularly ETag) of the selected |
|---|
| 1014 | representation that has a matching entity-tag. For all other request methods, the server <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> respond with a 412 (Precondition Failed) status code. |
|---|
| 1015 | </p> |
|---|
| 1016 | <p id="rfc.section.6.4.p.5">If none of the entity-tags match, then the server <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> perform the requested method as if the If-None-Match header field did not exist, but <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> also ignore any If-Modified-Since header field(s) in the request. That is, if no entity-tags match, then the server <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> return a 304 (Not Modified) response. |
|---|
| 1017 | </p> |
|---|
| 1018 | <p id="rfc.section.6.4.p.6">If the request would, without the If-None-Match header field, result in anything other than a 2xx or 304 status code, then |
|---|
| 1019 | the If-None-Match header field <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be ignored. (See <a href="#rules.for.when.to.use.entity.tags.and.last-modified.dates" title="Rules for When to Use Entity-tags and Last-Modified Dates">Section 5</a> for a discussion of server behavior when both If-Modified-Since and If-None-Match appear in the same request.) |
|---|
| 1020 | </p> |
|---|
| 1021 | <p id="rfc.section.6.4.p.7">Examples:</p> |
|---|
| 1022 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.14"></div><pre class="text"> If-None-Match: "xyzzy" |
|---|
| 1023 | If-None-Match: W/"xyzzy" |
|---|
| 1024 | If-None-Match: "xyzzy", "r2d2xxxx", "c3piozzzz" |
|---|
| 1025 | If-None-Match: W/"xyzzy", W/"r2d2xxxx", W/"c3piozzzz" |
|---|
| 1026 | If-None-Match: * |
|---|
| 1027 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.4.p.9">The result of a request having both an If-None-Match header field and either an If-Match or an If-Unmodified-Since header |
|---|
| 1028 | fields is undefined by this specification. |
|---|
| 1029 | </p> |
|---|
| 1030 | <div id="rfc.iref.i.4"></div> |
|---|
| 1031 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.5"></div> |
|---|
| 1032 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.5"><a href="#rfc.section.6.5">6.5</a> <a id="header.if-unmodified-since" href="#header.if-unmodified-since">If-Unmodified-Since</a></h2> |
|---|
| 1033 | <p id="rfc.section.6.5.p.1">The "If-Unmodified-Since" header field <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be used to make a request method conditional by modification date: if the selected representation has been modified since |
|---|
| 1034 | the time specified in this field, then the server <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> perform the requested operation and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> instead respond with the 412 (Precondition Failed) status code. If the selected representation has not been modified since |
|---|
| 1035 | the time specified in this field, the server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> perform the request method as if the If-Unmodified-Since header field were not present. |
|---|
| 1036 | </p> |
|---|
| 1037 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.15"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.8"></span> <a href="#header.if-unmodified-since" class="smpl">If-Unmodified-Since</a> = <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> |
|---|
| 1038 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.5.p.3">An example of the field is:</p> |
|---|
| 1039 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.16"></div><pre class="text"> If-Unmodified-Since: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 19:43:31 GMT |
|---|
| 1040 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.5.p.5">If the request normally (i.e., without the If-Unmodified-Since header field) would result in anything other than a 2xx or |
|---|
| 1041 | 412 status code, the If-Unmodified-Since header field <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> be ignored. |
|---|
| 1042 | </p> |
|---|
| 1043 | <p id="rfc.section.6.5.p.6">If the specified date is invalid, the header field <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be ignored. |
|---|
| 1044 | </p> |
|---|
| 1045 | <p id="rfc.section.6.5.p.7">The result of a request having both an If-Unmodified-Since header field and either an If-None-Match or an If-Modified-Since |
|---|
| 1046 | header fields is undefined by this specification. |
|---|
| 1047 | </p> |
|---|
| 1048 | <div id="rfc.iref.l.1"></div> |
|---|
| 1049 | <div id="rfc.iref.h.6"></div> |
|---|
| 1050 | <h2 id="rfc.section.6.6"><a href="#rfc.section.6.6">6.6</a> <a id="header.last-modified" href="#header.last-modified">Last-Modified</a></h2> |
|---|
| 1051 | <p id="rfc.section.6.6.p.1">The "Last-Modified" header field indicates the date and time at which the origin server believes the representation was last |
|---|
| 1052 | modified. |
|---|
| 1053 | </p> |
|---|
| 1054 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.17"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.9"></span> <a href="#header.last-modified" class="smpl">Last-Modified</a> = <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> |
|---|
| 1055 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.6.p.3">An example of its use is</p> |
|---|
| 1056 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.18"></div><pre class="text"> Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 12:45:26 GMT |
|---|
| 1057 | </pre><p id="rfc.section.6.6.p.5">A representation is typically the sum of many parts behind the resource interface. The last-modified time would usually be |
|---|
| 1058 | the most recent time that any of those parts were changed. How that value is determined for any given resource is an implementation |
|---|
| 1059 | detail beyond the scope of this specification. What matters to HTTP is how recipients of the Last-Modified header field can |
|---|
| 1060 | use its value to make conditional requests and test the validity of locally cached responses. |
|---|
| 1061 | </p> |
|---|
| 1062 | <p id="rfc.section.6.6.p.6">An origin server <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> send a Last-Modified date which is later than the server's time of message origination. In such cases, where the resource's |
|---|
| 1063 | last modification would indicate some time in the future, the server <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> replace that date with the message origination date. |
|---|
| 1064 | </p> |
|---|
| 1065 | <p id="rfc.section.6.6.p.7">An origin server <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> obtain the Last-Modified value of the representation as close as possible to the time that it generates the Date value of |
|---|
| 1066 | its response. This allows a recipient to make an accurate assessment of the representation's modification time, especially |
|---|
| 1067 | if the representation changes near the time that the response is generated. |
|---|
| 1068 | </p> |
|---|
| 1069 | <p id="rfc.section.6.6.p.8">HTTP/1.1 servers <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> send Last-Modified whenever feasible. |
|---|
| 1070 | </p> |
|---|
| 1071 | <p id="rfc.section.6.6.p.9">The Last-Modified header field value is often used as a cache validator. In simple terms, a cache entry is considered to be |
|---|
| 1072 | valid if the representation has not been modified since the Last-Modified value. |
|---|
| 1073 | </p> |
|---|
| 1074 | <h1 id="rfc.section.7"><a href="#rfc.section.7">7.</a> <a id="IANA.considerations" href="#IANA.considerations">IANA Considerations</a></h1> |
|---|
| 1075 | <h2 id="rfc.section.7.1"><a href="#rfc.section.7.1">7.1</a> <a id="status.code.registration" href="#status.code.registration">Status Code Registration</a></h2> |
|---|
| 1076 | <p id="rfc.section.7.1.p.1">The HTTP Status Code Registry located at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes">http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes</a>> shall be updated with the registrations below: |
|---|
| 1077 | </p> |
|---|
| 1078 | <div id="rfc.table.1"> |
|---|
| 1079 | <div id="iana.status.code.registration.table"></div> |
|---|
| 1080 | <table class="tt full left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> |
|---|
| 1081 | <thead> |
|---|
| 1082 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1083 | <th>Value</th> |
|---|
| 1084 | <th>Description</th> |
|---|
| 1085 | <th>Reference</th> |
|---|
| 1086 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1087 | </thead> |
|---|
| 1088 | <tbody> |
|---|
| 1089 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1090 | <td class="left">304</td> |
|---|
| 1091 | <td class="left">Not Modified</td> |
|---|
| 1092 | <td class="left"> <a href="#status.304" id="rfc.xref.status.304.1" title="304 Not Modified">Section 3.1</a> |
|---|
| 1093 | </td> |
|---|
| 1094 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1095 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1096 | <td class="left">412</td> |
|---|
| 1097 | <td class="left">Precondition Failed</td> |
|---|
| 1098 | <td class="left"> <a href="#status.412" id="rfc.xref.status.412.1" title="412 Precondition Failed">Section 3.2</a> |
|---|
| 1099 | </td> |
|---|
| 1100 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1101 | </tbody> |
|---|
| 1102 | </table> |
|---|
| 1103 | </div> |
|---|
| 1104 | <h2 id="rfc.section.7.2"><a href="#rfc.section.7.2">7.2</a> <a id="header.field.registration" href="#header.field.registration">Header Field Registration</a></h2> |
|---|
| 1105 | <p id="rfc.section.7.2.p.1">The Message Header Field Registry located at <<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-header-index.html">http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-header-index.html</a>> shall be updated with the permanent registrations below (see <a href="#RFC3864" id="rfc.xref.RFC3864.1"><cite title="Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields">[RFC3864]</cite></a>): |
|---|
| 1106 | </p> |
|---|
| 1107 | <div id="rfc.table.2"> |
|---|
| 1108 | <div id="iana.header.registration.table"></div> |
|---|
| 1109 | <table class="tt full left" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="0"> |
|---|
| 1110 | <thead> |
|---|
| 1111 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1112 | <th>Header Field Name</th> |
|---|
| 1113 | <th>Protocol</th> |
|---|
| 1114 | <th>Status</th> |
|---|
| 1115 | <th>Reference</th> |
|---|
| 1116 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1117 | </thead> |
|---|
| 1118 | <tbody> |
|---|
| 1119 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1120 | <td class="left">ETag</td> |
|---|
| 1121 | <td class="left">http</td> |
|---|
| 1122 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
|---|
| 1123 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.etag" id="rfc.xref.header.etag.2" title="ETag">Section 6.1</a> |
|---|
| 1124 | </td> |
|---|
| 1125 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1126 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1127 | <td class="left">If-Match</td> |
|---|
| 1128 | <td class="left">http</td> |
|---|
| 1129 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
|---|
| 1130 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.if-match" id="rfc.xref.header.if-match.2" title="If-Match">Section 6.2</a> |
|---|
| 1131 | </td> |
|---|
| 1132 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1133 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1134 | <td class="left">If-Modified-Since</td> |
|---|
| 1135 | <td class="left">http</td> |
|---|
| 1136 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
|---|
| 1137 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.if-modified-since" id="rfc.xref.header.if-modified-since.1" title="If-Modified-Since">Section 6.3</a> |
|---|
| 1138 | </td> |
|---|
| 1139 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1140 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1141 | <td class="left">If-None-Match</td> |
|---|
| 1142 | <td class="left">http</td> |
|---|
| 1143 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
|---|
| 1144 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.if-none-match" id="rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.2" title="If-None-Match">Section 6.4</a> |
|---|
| 1145 | </td> |
|---|
| 1146 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1147 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1148 | <td class="left">If-Unmodified-Since</td> |
|---|
| 1149 | <td class="left">http</td> |
|---|
| 1150 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
|---|
| 1151 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.if-unmodified-since" id="rfc.xref.header.if-unmodified-since.1" title="If-Unmodified-Since">Section 6.5</a> |
|---|
| 1152 | </td> |
|---|
| 1153 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1154 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1155 | <td class="left">Last-Modified</td> |
|---|
| 1156 | <td class="left">http</td> |
|---|
| 1157 | <td class="left">standard</td> |
|---|
| 1158 | <td class="left"> <a href="#header.last-modified" id="rfc.xref.header.last-modified.1" title="Last-Modified">Section 6.6</a> |
|---|
| 1159 | </td> |
|---|
| 1160 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1161 | </tbody> |
|---|
| 1162 | </table> |
|---|
| 1163 | </div> |
|---|
| 1164 | <p id="rfc.section.7.2.p.2">The change controller is: "IETF (iesg@ietf.org) - Internet Engineering Task Force".</p> |
|---|
| 1165 | <h1 id="rfc.section.8"><a href="#rfc.section.8">8.</a> <a id="security.considerations" href="#security.considerations">Security Considerations</a></h1> |
|---|
| 1166 | <p id="rfc.section.8.p.1">No additional security considerations have been identified beyond those applicable to HTTP in general <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.9"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>. |
|---|
| 1167 | </p> |
|---|
| 1168 | <h1 id="rfc.section.9"><a href="#rfc.section.9">9.</a> <a id="ack" href="#ack">Acknowledgments</a></h1> |
|---|
| 1169 | <h1 id="rfc.references"><a id="rfc.section.10" href="#rfc.section.10">10.</a> References |
|---|
| 1170 | </h1> |
|---|
| 1171 | <h2 id="rfc.references.1"><a href="#rfc.section.10.1" id="rfc.section.10.1">10.1</a> Normative References |
|---|
| 1172 | </h2> |
|---|
| 1173 | <table> |
|---|
| 1174 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1175 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part1">[Part1]</b></td> |
|---|
| 1176 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org" title="Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest">HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest (work in progress), March 2011. |
|---|
| 1177 | </td> |
|---|
| 1178 | </tr> |
|---|
| 1179 | <tr> |
|---|
| 1180 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part3">[Part3]</b></td> |
|---|
| 1181 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org" title="Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-latest">HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-latest (work in progress), March 2011. |
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| 1182 | </td> |
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| 1183 | </tr> |
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| 1184 | <tr> |
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| 1185 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part5">[Part5]</b></td> |
|---|
| 1186 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org" title="Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-latest">HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-latest (work in progress), March 2011. |
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| 1187 | </td> |
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| 1188 | </tr> |
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| 1189 | <tr> |
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| 1190 | <td class="reference"><b id="Part6">[Part6]</b></td> |
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| 1191 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Fielding, R., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org" title="Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="Hewlett-Packard Company">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org" title="Adobe Systems Incorporated">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Berners-Lee, T.</a>, <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org" title="World Wide Web Consortium">Lafon, Y., Ed.</a>, <a href="mailto:mnot@mnot.net">Nottingham, M., Ed.</a>, and <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de" title="greenbytes GmbH">J. Reschke, Ed.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-latest">HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching</a>”, Internet-Draft draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-latest (work in progress), March 2011. |
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| 1192 | </td> |
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| 1193 | </tr> |
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| 1194 | <tr> |
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| 1195 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2119">[RFC2119]</b></td> |
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| 1196 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:sob@harvard.edu" title="Harvard University">Bradner, S.</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2119">Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels</a>”, BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. |
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| 1197 | </td> |
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| 1198 | </tr> |
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| 1199 | <tr> |
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| 1200 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC5234">[RFC5234]</b></td> |
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| 1201 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:dcrocker@bbiw.net" title="Brandenburg InternetWorking">Crocker, D., Ed.</a> and <a href="mailto:paul.overell@thus.net" title="THUS plc.">P. Overell</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5234">Augmented BNF for Syntax Specifications: ABNF</a>”, STD 68, RFC 5234, January 2008. |
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| 1202 | </td> |
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| 1203 | </tr> |
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| 1204 | </table> |
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| 1205 | <h2 id="rfc.references.2"><a href="#rfc.section.10.2" id="rfc.section.10.2">10.2</a> Informative References |
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| 1206 | </h2> |
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| 1207 | <table> |
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| 1208 | <tr> |
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| 1209 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC2616">[RFC2616]</b></td> |
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| 1210 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:fielding@ics.uci.edu" title="University of California, Irvine">Fielding, R.</a>, <a href="mailto:jg@w3.org" title="W3C">Gettys, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:mogul@wrl.dec.com" title="Compaq Computer Corporation">Mogul, J.</a>, <a href="mailto:frystyk@w3.org" title="MIT Laboratory for Computer Science">Frystyk, H.</a>, <a href="mailto:masinter@parc.xerox.com" title="Xerox Corporation">Masinter, L.</a>, <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com" title="Microsoft Corporation">Leach, P.</a>, and <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org" title="W3C">T. Berners-Lee</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616">Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</a>”, RFC 2616, June 1999. |
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| 1211 | </td> |
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| 1212 | </tr> |
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| 1213 | <tr> |
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| 1214 | <td class="reference"><b id="RFC3864">[RFC3864]</b></td> |
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| 1215 | <td class="top"><a href="mailto:GK-IETF@ninebynine.org" title="Nine by Nine">Klyne, G.</a>, <a href="mailto:mnot@pobox.com" title="BEA Systems">Nottingham, M.</a>, and <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org" title="HP Labs">J. Mogul</a>, “<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3864">Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields</a>”, BCP 90, RFC 3864, September 2004. |
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| 1216 | </td> |
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| 1217 | </tr> |
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| 1218 | </table> |
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| 1219 | <div class="avoidbreak"> |
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| 1220 | <h1 id="rfc.authors"><a href="#rfc.authors">Authors' Addresses</a></h1> |
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| 1221 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Roy T. Fielding</span> |
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| 1222 | (editor) |
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| 1223 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Fielding</span><span class="given-name">Roy T.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Adobe Systems Incorporated</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">345 Park Ave</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">San Jose</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">95110</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:fielding@gbiv.com"><span class="email">fielding@gbiv.com</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://roy.gbiv.com/" class="url">http://roy.gbiv.com/</a></span></address> |
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| 1224 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Jim Gettys</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Gettys</span><span class="given-name">Jim</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">21 Oak Knoll Road</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Carlisle</span>, <span class="region">MA</span> <span class="postal-code">01741</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:jg@freedesktop.org"><span class="email">jg@freedesktop.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://gettys.wordpress.com/" class="url">http://gettys.wordpress.com/</a></span></address> |
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| 1225 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Jeffrey C. Mogul</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Mogul</span><span class="given-name">Jeffrey C.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Hewlett-Packard Company</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">HP Labs, Large Scale Systems Group</span><span class="street-address vcardline">1501 Page Mill Road, MS 1177</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Palo Alto</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">94304</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:JeffMogul@acm.org"><span class="email">JeffMogul@acm.org</span></a></span></address> |
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| 1226 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Henrik Frystyk Nielsen</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Frystyk</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Microsoft Corporation</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">1 Microsoft Way</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Redmond</span>, <span class="region">WA</span> <span class="postal-code">98052</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:henrikn@microsoft.com"><span class="email">henrikn@microsoft.com</span></a></span></address> |
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| 1227 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Larry Masinter</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Masinter</span><span class="given-name">Larry</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Adobe Systems Incorporated</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">345 Park Ave</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">San Jose</span>, <span class="region">CA</span> <span class="postal-code">95110</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:LMM@acm.org"><span class="email">LMM@acm.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://larry.masinter.net/" class="url">http://larry.masinter.net/</a></span></address> |
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| 1228 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Paul J. Leach</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Leach</span><span class="given-name">Paul J.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">Microsoft Corporation</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">1 Microsoft Way</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Redmond</span>, <span class="region">WA</span> <span class="postal-code">98052</span></span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:paulle@microsoft.com"><span class="email">paulle@microsoft.com</span></a></span></address> |
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| 1229 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Tim Berners-Lee</span><span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Berners-Lee</span><span class="given-name">Tim</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">World Wide Web Consortium</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory</span><span class="street-address vcardline">The Stata Center, Building 32</span><span class="street-address vcardline">32 Vassar Street</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Cambridge</span>, <span class="region">MA</span> <span class="postal-code">02139</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">USA</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:timbl@w3.org"><span class="email">timbl@w3.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/" class="url">http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/</a></span></address> |
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| 1230 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Yves Lafon</span> |
|---|
| 1231 | (editor) |
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| 1232 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Lafon</span><span class="given-name">Yves</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">World Wide Web Consortium</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">W3C / ERCIM</span><span class="street-address vcardline">2004, rte des Lucioles</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Sophia-Antipolis</span>, <span class="region">AM</span> <span class="postal-code">06902</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">France</span></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:ylafon@w3.org"><span class="email">ylafon@w3.org</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/" class="url">http://www.raubacapeu.net/people/yves/</a></span></address> |
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| 1233 | <address class="vcard"><span class="vcardline"><span class="fn">Julian F. Reschke</span> |
|---|
| 1234 | (editor) |
|---|
| 1235 | <span class="n hidden"><span class="family-name">Reschke</span><span class="given-name">Julian F.</span></span></span><span class="org vcardline">greenbytes GmbH</span><span class="adr"><span class="street-address vcardline">Hafenweg 16</span><span class="vcardline"><span class="locality">Muenster</span>, <span class="region">NW</span> <span class="postal-code">48155</span></span><span class="country-name vcardline">Germany</span></span><span class="vcardline tel">Phone: <a href="tel:+492512807760"><span class="value">+49 251 2807760</span></a></span><span class="vcardline tel"><span class="type">Fax</span>: <a href="fax:+492512807761"><span class="value">+49 251 2807761</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">Email: <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de"><span class="email">julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</span></a></span><span class="vcardline">URI: <a href="http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/" class="url">http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</a></span></address> |
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| 1236 | </div> |
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| 1237 | <h1 id="rfc.section.A" class="np"><a href="#rfc.section.A">A.</a> <a id="changes.from.rfc.2616" href="#changes.from.rfc.2616">Changes from RFC 2616</a></h1> |
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| 1238 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.1">Allow weak entity-tags in all requests except range requests (Sections <a href="#weak.and.strong.validators" title="Weak and Strong Validators">4</a> and <a href="#header.if-none-match" id="rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.3" title="If-None-Match">6.4</a>). |
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| 1239 | </p> |
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| 1240 | <p id="rfc.section.A.p.2">Change ABNF productions for header fields to only define the field value. (<a href="#header.fields" title="Header Field Definitions">Section 6</a>) |
|---|
| 1241 | </p> |
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| 1242 | <h1 id="rfc.section.B"><a href="#rfc.section.B">B.</a> <a id="collected.abnf" href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></h1> |
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| 1243 | <div id="rfc.figure.u.19"></div> <pre class="inline"><a href="#header.etag" class="smpl">ETag</a> = entity-tag |
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| 1244 | |
|---|
| 1245 | <a href="#abnf.dependencies" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a> = <HTTP-date, defined in [Part1], Section 6.1> |
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| 1246 | |
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| 1247 | <a href="#header.if-match" class="smpl">If-Match</a> = "*" / ( *( "," OWS ) entity-tag *( OWS "," [ OWS |
|---|
| 1248 | entity-tag ] ) ) |
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| 1249 | <a href="#header.if-modified-since" class="smpl">If-Modified-Since</a> = HTTP-date |
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| 1250 | <a href="#header.if-none-match" class="smpl">If-None-Match</a> = "*" / ( *( "," OWS ) entity-tag *( OWS "," [ OWS |
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| 1251 | entity-tag ] ) ) |
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| 1252 | <a href="#header.if-unmodified-since" class="smpl">If-Unmodified-Since</a> = HTTP-date |
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| 1253 | |
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| 1254 | <a href="#header.last-modified" class="smpl">Last-Modified</a> = HTTP-date |
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| 1255 | |
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| 1256 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">OWS</a> = <OWS, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2> |
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| 1257 | |
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| 1258 | <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">entity-tag</a> = [ weak ] opaque-tag |
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| 1259 | |
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| 1260 | <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">opaque-tag</a> = quoted-string |
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| 1261 | |
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| 1262 | <a href="#core.rules" class="smpl">quoted-string</a> = <quoted-string, defined in [Part1], Section 1.2.2> |
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| 1263 | |
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| 1264 | <a href="#entity.tags" class="smpl">weak</a> = %x57.2F ; W/ |
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| 1265 | </pre> <div id="rfc.figure.u.20"></div> |
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| 1266 | <p>ABNF diagnostics:</p><pre class="inline">; ETag defined but not used |
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| 1267 | ; If-Match defined but not used |
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| 1268 | ; If-Modified-Since defined but not used |
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| 1269 | ; If-None-Match defined but not used |
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| 1270 | ; If-Unmodified-Since defined but not used |
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| 1271 | ; Last-Modified defined but not used |
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| 1272 | </pre><h1 id="rfc.section.C"><a href="#rfc.section.C">C.</a> <a id="change.log" href="#change.log">Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)</a></h1> |
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| 1273 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.1"><a href="#rfc.section.C.1">C.1</a> Since RFC 2616 |
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| 1274 | </h2> |
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| 1275 | <p id="rfc.section.C.1.p.1">Extracted relevant partitions from <a href="#RFC2616" id="rfc.xref.RFC2616.2"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1">[RFC2616]</cite></a>. |
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| 1276 | </p> |
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| 1277 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.2"><a href="#rfc.section.C.2">C.2</a> Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-00 |
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| 1278 | </h2> |
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| 1279 | <p id="rfc.section.C.2.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1280 | <ul> |
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| 1281 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/35">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/35</a>>: "Normative and Informative references" |
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| 1282 | </li> |
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| 1283 | </ul> |
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| 1284 | <p id="rfc.section.C.2.p.2">Other changes: </p> |
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| 1285 | <ul> |
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| 1286 | <li>Move definitions of 304 and 412 condition codes from Part2.</li> |
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| 1287 | </ul> |
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| 1288 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.3"><a href="#rfc.section.C.3">C.3</a> Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-01 |
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| 1289 | </h2> |
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| 1290 | <p id="rfc.section.C.3.p.1">Ongoing work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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| 1291 | </p> |
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| 1292 | <ul> |
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| 1293 | <li>Add explicit references to BNF syntax and rules imported from other parts of the specification.</li> |
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| 1294 | </ul> |
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| 1295 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.4"><a href="#rfc.section.C.4">C.4</a> <a id="changes.since.02" href="#changes.since.02">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-02</a></h2> |
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| 1296 | <p id="rfc.section.C.4.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1297 | <ul> |
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| 1298 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/116">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/116</a>>: "Weak ETags on non-GET requests" |
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| 1299 | </li> |
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| 1300 | </ul> |
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| 1301 | <p id="rfc.section.C.4.p.2">Ongoing work on IANA Message Header Field Registration (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/40">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/40</a>>): |
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| 1302 | </p> |
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| 1303 | <ul> |
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| 1304 | <li>Reference RFC 3984, and update header field registrations for header fields defined in this document.</li> |
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| 1305 | </ul> |
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| 1306 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.5"><a href="#rfc.section.C.5">C.5</a> <a id="changes.since.03" href="#changes.since.03">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-03</a></h2> |
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| 1307 | <p id="rfc.section.C.5.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1308 | <ul> |
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| 1309 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/71">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/71</a>>: "Examples for ETag matching" |
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| 1310 | </li> |
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| 1311 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/124">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/124</a>>: "'entity value' undefined" |
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| 1312 | </li> |
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| 1313 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/126">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/126</a>>: "bogus 2068 Date header reference" |
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| 1314 | </li> |
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| 1315 | </ul> |
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| 1316 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.6"><a href="#rfc.section.C.6">C.6</a> <a id="changes.since.04" href="#changes.since.04">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-04</a></h2> |
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| 1317 | <p id="rfc.section.C.6.p.1">Ongoing work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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| 1318 | </p> |
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| 1319 | <ul> |
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| 1320 | <li>Use "/" instead of "|" for alternatives.</li> |
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| 1321 | <li>Introduce new ABNF rules for "bad" whitespace ("BWS"), optional whitespace ("OWS") and required whitespace ("RWS").</li> |
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| 1322 | <li>Rewrite ABNFs to spell out whitespace rules, factor out header field value format definitions.</li> |
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| 1323 | </ul> |
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| 1324 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.7"><a href="#rfc.section.C.7">C.7</a> <a id="changes.since.05" href="#changes.since.05">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-05</a></h2> |
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| 1325 | <p id="rfc.section.C.7.p.1">Final work on ABNF conversion (<<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/36</a>>): |
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| 1326 | </p> |
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| 1327 | <ul> |
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| 1328 | <li>Add appendix containing collected and expanded ABNF, reorganize ABNF introduction.</li> |
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| 1329 | </ul> |
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| 1330 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.8"><a href="#rfc.section.C.8">C.8</a> <a id="changes.since.06" href="#changes.since.06">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-06</a></h2> |
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| 1331 | <p id="rfc.section.C.8.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1332 | <ul> |
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| 1333 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/153">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/153</a>>: "case-sensitivity of etag weakness indicator" |
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| 1334 | </li> |
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| 1335 | </ul> |
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| 1336 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.9"><a href="#rfc.section.C.9">C.9</a> <a id="changes.since.07" href="#changes.since.07">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-07</a></h2> |
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| 1337 | <p id="rfc.section.C.9.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1338 | <ul> |
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| 1339 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/116">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/116</a>>: "Weak ETags on non-GET requests" (If-Match still was defined to require strong matching) |
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| 1340 | </li> |
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| 1341 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/198">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/198</a>>: "move IANA registrations for optional status codes" |
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| 1342 | </li> |
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| 1343 | </ul> |
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| 1344 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.10"><a href="#rfc.section.C.10">C.10</a> <a id="changes.since.08" href="#changes.since.08">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-08</a></h2> |
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| 1345 | <p id="rfc.section.C.10.p.1">No significant changes.</p> |
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| 1346 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.11"><a href="#rfc.section.C.11">C.11</a> <a id="changes.since.09" href="#changes.since.09">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-09</a></h2> |
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| 1347 | <p id="rfc.section.C.11.p.1">No significant changes.</p> |
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| 1348 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.12"><a href="#rfc.section.C.12">C.12</a> <a id="changes.since.10" href="#changes.since.10">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-10</a></h2> |
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| 1349 | <p id="rfc.section.C.12.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1350 | <ul> |
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| 1351 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/69">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/69</a>>: "Clarify 'Requested Variant'" |
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| 1352 | </li> |
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| 1353 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/109">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/109</a>>: "Clarify entity / representation / variant terminology" |
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| 1354 | </li> |
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| 1355 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/220">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/220</a>>: "consider removing the 'changes from 2068' sections" |
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| 1356 | </li> |
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| 1357 | </ul> |
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| 1358 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.13"><a href="#rfc.section.C.13">C.13</a> <a id="changes.since.11" href="#changes.since.11">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-11</a></h2> |
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| 1359 | <p id="rfc.section.C.13.p.1">None.</p> |
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| 1360 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.14"><a href="#rfc.section.C.14">C.14</a> <a id="changes.since.12" href="#changes.since.12">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-12</a></h2> |
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| 1361 | <p id="rfc.section.C.14.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1362 | <ul> |
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| 1363 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/224">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/224</a>>: "Header Classification" |
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| 1364 | </li> |
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| 1365 | </ul> |
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| 1366 | <h2 id="rfc.section.C.15"><a href="#rfc.section.C.15">C.15</a> <a id="changes.since.13" href="#changes.since.13">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-13</a></h2> |
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| 1367 | <p id="rfc.section.C.15.p.1">Closed issues: </p> |
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| 1368 | <ul> |
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| 1369 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/89">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/89</a>>: "If-* and entities" |
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| 1370 | </li> |
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| 1371 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/101">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/101</a>>: "If-* and entities" |
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| 1372 | </li> |
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| 1373 | <li> <<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/276">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/276</a>>: "untangle ABNFs for header fields" |
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| 1374 | </li> |
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| 1375 | </ul> |
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| 1376 | <h1 id="rfc.index"><a href="#rfc.index">Index</a></h1> |
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| 1377 | <p class="noprint"><a href="#rfc.index.3">3</a> <a href="#rfc.index.4">4</a> <a href="#rfc.index.E">E</a> <a href="#rfc.index.G">G</a> <a href="#rfc.index.H">H</a> <a href="#rfc.index.I">I</a> <a href="#rfc.index.L">L</a> <a href="#rfc.index.P">P</a> <a href="#rfc.index.R">R</a> <a href="#rfc.index.S">S</a> |
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| 1378 | </p> |
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| 1379 | <div class="print2col"> |
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| 1380 | <ul class="ind"> |
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| 1381 | <li><a id="rfc.index.3" href="#rfc.index.3"><b>3</b></a><ul> |
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| 1382 | <li>304 Not Modified (status code) <a href="#rfc.iref.4"><b>3.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.304.1">7.1</a></li> |
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| 1383 | </ul> |
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| 1384 | </li> |
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| 1385 | <li><a id="rfc.index.4" href="#rfc.index.4"><b>4</b></a><ul> |
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| 1386 | <li>412 Precondition Failed (status code) <a href="#rfc.iref.5"><b>3.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.412.1">7.1</a></li> |
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| 1387 | </ul> |
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| 1388 | </li> |
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| 1389 | <li><a id="rfc.index.E" href="#rfc.index.E"><b>E</b></a><ul> |
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| 1390 | <li>ETag header field <a href="#rfc.xref.header.etag.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.e.1"><b>6.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.etag.2">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1391 | </ul> |
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| 1392 | </li> |
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| 1393 | <li><a id="rfc.index.G" href="#rfc.index.G"><b>G</b></a><ul> |
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| 1394 | <li><tt>Grammar</tt> |
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| 1395 | <ul> |
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| 1396 | <li><tt>entity-tag</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.1"><b>2</b></a></li> |
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| 1397 | <li><tt>ETag</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.4"><b>6.1</b></a></li> |
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| 1398 | <li><tt>If-Match</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.5"><b>6.2</b></a></li> |
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| 1399 | <li><tt>If-Modified-Since</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.6"><b>6.3</b></a></li> |
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| 1400 | <li><tt>If-None-Match</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.7"><b>6.4</b></a></li> |
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| 1401 | <li><tt>If-Unmodified-Since</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.8"><b>6.5</b></a></li> |
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| 1402 | <li><tt>Last-Modified</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.9"><b>6.6</b></a></li> |
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| 1403 | <li><tt>opaque-tag</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.3"><b>2</b></a></li> |
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| 1404 | <li><tt>weak</tt> <a href="#rfc.iref.g.2"><b>2</b></a></li> |
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| 1405 | </ul> |
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| 1406 | </li> |
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| 1407 | </ul> |
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| 1408 | </li> |
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| 1409 | <li><a id="rfc.index.H" href="#rfc.index.H"><b>H</b></a><ul> |
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| 1410 | <li>Header Fields |
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| 1411 | <ul> |
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| 1412 | <li>ETag <a href="#rfc.xref.header.etag.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.1"><b>6.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.etag.2">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1413 | <li>If-Match <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-match.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.2"><b>6.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-match.2">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1414 | <li>If-Modified-Since <a href="#rfc.iref.h.3"><b>6.3</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-modified-since.1">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1415 | <li>If-None-Match <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.h.4"><b>6.4</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.2">7.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.3">A</a></li> |
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| 1416 | <li>If-Unmodified-Since <a href="#rfc.iref.h.5"><b>6.5</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-unmodified-since.1">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1417 | <li>Last-Modified <a href="#rfc.iref.h.6"><b>6.6</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.last-modified.1">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1418 | </ul> |
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| 1419 | </li> |
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| 1420 | </ul> |
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| 1421 | </li> |
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| 1422 | <li><a id="rfc.index.I" href="#rfc.index.I"><b>I</b></a><ul> |
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| 1423 | <li>If-Match header field <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-match.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.i.1"><b>6.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-match.2">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1424 | <li>If-Modified-Since header field <a href="#rfc.iref.i.2"><b>6.3</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-modified-since.1">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1425 | <li>If-None-Match header field <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.iref.i.3"><b>6.4</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.2">7.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-none-match.3">A</a></li> |
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| 1426 | <li>If-Unmodified-Since header field <a href="#rfc.iref.i.4"><b>6.5</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.if-unmodified-since.1">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1427 | </ul> |
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| 1428 | </li> |
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| 1429 | <li><a id="rfc.index.L" href="#rfc.index.L"><b>L</b></a><ul> |
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| 1430 | <li>Last-Modified header field <a href="#rfc.iref.l.1"><b>6.6</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.header.last-modified.1">7.2</a></li> |
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| 1431 | </ul> |
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| 1432 | </li> |
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| 1433 | <li><a id="rfc.index.P" href="#rfc.index.P"><b>P</b></a><ul> |
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| 1434 | <li><em>Part1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">1.2.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.9">8</a>, <a href="#Part1"><b>10.1</b></a><ul> |
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| 1435 | <li><em>Section 1.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.1">1.2</a></li> |
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| 1436 | <li><em>Section 1.2.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.2">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.3">1.2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.4">1.2.1</a></li> |
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| 1437 | <li><em>Section 6.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.5">1.2.2</a></li> |
|---|
| 1438 | <li><em>Section 6.2</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.6">2.1</a></li> |
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| 1439 | <li><em>Section 9.3</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.7">3.1</a></li> |
|---|
| 1440 | <li><em>Section 9.3.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part1.8">3.1</a></li> |
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| 1441 | </ul> |
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| 1442 | </li> |
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| 1443 | <li><em>Part3</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part3.1">2.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part3.2">2.1</a>, <a href="#Part3"><b>10.1</b></a><ul> |
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| 1444 | <li><em>Section 5</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part3.1">2.1</a></li> |
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| 1445 | <li><em>Section 6.3</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part3.2">2.1</a></li> |
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| 1446 | </ul> |
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| 1447 | </li> |
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| 1448 | <li><em>Part5</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part5.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part5.2">4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part5.3">4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part5.4">6.3</a>, <a href="#Part5"><b>10.1</b></a><ul> |
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| 1449 | <li><em>Section 5.3</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part5.1">2</a></li> |
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| 1450 | <li><em>Section 5.4</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part5.4">6.3</a></li> |
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| 1451 | </ul> |
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| 1452 | </li> |
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| 1453 | <li><em>Part6</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part6.1">1</a>, <a href="#Part6"><b>10.1</b></a></li> |
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| 1454 | </ul> |
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| 1455 | </li> |
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| 1456 | <li><a id="rfc.index.R" href="#rfc.index.R"><b>R</b></a><ul> |
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| 1457 | <li><em>RFC2119</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2119.1">1.1</a>, <a href="#RFC2119"><b>10.1</b></a></li> |
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| 1458 | <li><em>RFC2616</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2616.1">1</a>, <a href="#RFC2616"><b>10.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC2616.2">C.1</a></li> |
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| 1459 | <li><em>RFC3864</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC3864.1">7.2</a>, <a href="#RFC3864"><b>10.2</b></a></li> |
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| 1460 | <li><em>RFC5234</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.1">1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.2">1.2</a>, <a href="#RFC5234"><b>10.1</b></a><ul> |
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| 1461 | <li><em>Appendix B.1</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.RFC5234.2">1.2</a></li> |
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| 1462 | </ul> |
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| 1463 | </li> |
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| 1464 | </ul> |
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| 1465 | </li> |
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| 1466 | <li><a id="rfc.index.S" href="#rfc.index.S"><b>S</b></a><ul> |
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| 1467 | <li>selected representation <a href="#rfc.iref.s.1"><b>1</b></a></li> |
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| 1468 | <li>Status Codes |
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| 1469 | <ul> |
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| 1470 | <li>304 Not Modified <a href="#rfc.iref.s.2"><b>3.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.304.1">7.1</a></li> |
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| 1471 | <li>412 Precondition Failed <a href="#rfc.iref.s.3"><b>3.2</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.status.412.1">7.1</a></li> |
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| 1472 | </ul> |
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| 1473 | </li> |
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| 1474 | </ul> |
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| 1476 | </ul> |
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