Changeset 1068 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Timestamp:

28/10/10 07:21:37 (10 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

clarify proxy requirements wrt not-understood methods (see #226)

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p2-semantics.html (modified) (6 diffs)
• p2-semantics.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.html

@@ -403 +403 @@
       <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F.">
       <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-latest">
-      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2010-10-27">
+      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2010-10-28">
       <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616">
       <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 2 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as &#34;HTTP/1.1&#34; and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 2 defines the semantics of HTTP messages as expressed by request methods, request-header fields, response status codes, and response-header fields.">
@@ -434 +434 @@
             </tr>
             <tr>
-               <td class="left">Expires: April 30, 2011</td>
+               <td class="left">Expires: May 1, 2011</td>
                <td class="right">HP</td>
             </tr>
@@ -487 +487 @@
             <tr>
                <td class="left"></td>
-               <td class="right">October 27, 2010</td>
+               <td class="right">October 28, 2010</td>
             </tr>
          </tbody>
@@ -514 +514 @@
          in progress”.
       </p>
-      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on April 30, 2011.</p>
+      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on May 1, 2011.</p>
       <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1>
       <p>Copyright © 2010 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p>
@@ -1602 +1602 @@
       <div id="rfc.figure.u.15"></div><pre class="text">  Allow: GET, HEAD, PUT
 </pre><p id="rfc.section.9.1.p.5">The actual set of allowed methods is defined by the origin server at the time of each request.</p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.9.1.p.6">A proxy <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> modify the Allow header field even if it does not understand all the methods specified, since the user agent might have other
-         means of communicating with the origin server.
+      <p id="rfc.section.9.1.p.6">A proxy <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> modify the Allow header field -- it does not need to understand all the methods specified in order to handle them according
+         to the generic message handling rules.
       </p>
       <div id="rfc.iref.e.1"></div>
@@ -2674 +2674 @@
       <ul>
          <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/88">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/88</a>&gt;: "205 Bodies"
+         </li>
+         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/226">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/226</a>&gt;: "proxies not supporting certain methods"
          </li>
          <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/239">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/239</a>&gt;: "Migrate CONNECT from RFC2817 to p2"

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml

@@ -2081 +2081 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   A proxy &MUST-NOT; modify the Allow header field even if it does not
-   understand all the methods specified, since the user agent might have other
-   means of communicating with the origin server.
+   A proxy &MUST-NOT; modify the Allow header field -- it does not need to
+   understand all the methods specified in order to handle them according to
+   the generic message handling rules.
 </t>
 </section>
@@ -3991 +3991 @@
     </t>
     <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/226"/>:
+      "proxies not supporting certain methods"
+    </t>
+    <t>
       <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/239"/>:
       "Migrate CONNECT from RFC2817 to p2"