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| 41 | <h1>IETF 77 - HTTPbis Open Issues Overview</h1>
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| 42 | <p>
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| 43 | <a href="mailto:julian.reschke@greenbytes.de">Julian Reschke</a>, greenbytes
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| 44 | </p>
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| 45 | <p>
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| 46 | <a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/9">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/9</a>
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| 50 | <h2 class="break">Current Work (not in -09) (1/2)</h2>
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| 53 | Age Calculation: made the age calculation algorithm a bit less
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| 54 | conservative; this needs more eyes
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| 55 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/29">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/29</a>)
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| 58 | Fragment combination during redirects: ongoing discussion whether
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| 59 | this is up to HTTP to specify, or whether it depends on the media type
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| 60 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/43">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/43</a>)
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| 62 | <li>
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| 63 | Status codes and caching: clarify heuristic caching of responses
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| 64 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/110">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/110</a>)
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| 68 | <h2 class="break">Current Work (not in -09) (2/2)</h2>
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| 71 | The return of the Sniffing discussion: TAG asks for Security Considerations of ignoring Content-Type
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| 72 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/155">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/155</a>)
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| 75 | Case-sensitivity of dates: ABNF makes them case-sensitive, reality is
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| 76 | they aren't, and prose asks implementers to do this already
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| 77 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/165">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/165</a>)
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| 78 | </li>
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| 79 | <li>
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| 80 | Define the term "effective request URI" and use it throughout
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| 81 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/196">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/196</a>)
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| 82 | </li>
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| 83 | </ul>
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| 85 | <h2 class="break">Pending Issues (1/3)</h2>
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| 86 | <ul>
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| 88 | Clarification of "deflate"
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| 89 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/73">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/73</a>)
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| 90 | </li>
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| 91 | <li>
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| 92 | Multiple Content-Length headers (security!)
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| 93 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/95">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/95</a>)
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| 94 | </li>
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| 95 | <li>
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| 96 | Methods and Caching
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| 97 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/139">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/139</a>)
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| 98 | </li>
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| 101 | <h2 class="break">Pending Issues (2/3)</h2>
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| 102 | <ul>
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| 103 | <li>
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| 104 | Keep-alive and Proxy-Connection Headers
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| 105 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/158">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/158</a>)
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| 112 | Max-Forwards vs Extension Methods
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| 113 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/203">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/203</a>)
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| 117 | <h2 class="break">Pending Issues (3/3)</h2>
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| 118 | <ul>
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| 120 | Controversial: error handling for non-URIs where URIs are expected,
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| 121 | such as Location header
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| 122 | (<a href="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/185">http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/185</a>)
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