Changeset 1068 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml

Timestamp:

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

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

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

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

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"