Changeset 1070 for draft-ietf-httpbis

Timestamp:

30/10/10 16:38:30 (10 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

Restrict Max-Forwards to OPTIONS and TRACE (see #203)

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p2-semantics.html (modified) (9 diffs)
• p2-semantics.xml (modified) (3 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="2010-10-28">
+      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2010-10-30">
       <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: May 1, 2011</td>
+               <td class="left">Expires: May 3, 2011</td>
                <td class="right">HP</td>
             </tr>
@@ -487 +487 @@
             <tr>
                <td class="left"></td>
-               <td class="right">October 28, 2010</td>
+               <td class="right">October 30, 2010</td>
             </tr>
          </tbody>
@@ -514 +514 @@
          in progress”.
       </p>
-      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on May 1, 2011.</p>
+      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on May 3, 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>
@@ -1695 +1695 @@
       <p id="rfc.section.9.5.p.4">Each proxy or gateway recipient of a TRACE or OPTIONS request containing a Max-Forwards header field <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> check and update its value prior to forwarding the request. If the received value is zero (0), the recipient <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> forward the request; instead, it <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> respond as the final recipient. If the received Max-Forwards value is greater than zero, then the forwarded message <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> contain an updated Max-Forwards field with a value decremented by one (1).
       </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.9.5.p.5">The Max-Forwards header field <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be ignored for all other methods defined by this specification and for any extension methods for which it is not explicitly
-         referred to as part of that method definition.
+      <p id="rfc.section.9.5.p.5">The Max-Forwards header field <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be ignored for all other methods.
       </p>
       <div id="rfc.iref.r.1"></div>
@@ -2354 +2353 @@
          (<a href="#header.location" id="rfc.xref.header.location.4" title="Location">Section&nbsp;9.4</a>)
       </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.A.p.8">Allow Referer field value of "about:blank" as alternative to not specifying it. (<a href="#header.referer" id="rfc.xref.header.referer.3" title="Referer">Section&nbsp;9.6</a>)
-      </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.A.p.9">In the description of the Server header field, the Via field was described as a SHOULD. The requirement was and is stated
+      <p id="rfc.section.A.p.8">Restrict Max-Forwards header field to OPTIONS and TRACE (previously, extension methods could have used it as well). (<a href="#header.max-forwards" id="rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.5" title="Max-Forwards">Section&nbsp;9.5</a>)
+      </p>
+      <p id="rfc.section.A.p.9">Allow Referer field value of "about:blank" as alternative to not specifying it. (<a href="#header.referer" id="rfc.xref.header.referer.3" title="Referer">Section&nbsp;9.6</a>)
+      </p>
+      <p id="rfc.section.A.p.10">In the description of the Server header field, the Via field was described as a SHOULD. The requirement was and is stated
          correctly in the description of the Via header field in <a href="p1-messaging.html#header.via" title="Via">Section 9.9</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.37"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing">[Part1]</cite></a>. (<a href="#header.server" id="rfc.xref.header.server.4" title="Server">Section&nbsp;9.8</a>)
       </p>
@@ -2674 +2675 @@
       <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/203">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/203</a>&gt;: "Max-Forwards vs extension methods"
          </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"
@@ -2806 +2809 @@
                         <li class="indline1">From&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.from.1">3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.h.4"><b>9.3</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.from.2">10.3</a></li>
                         <li class="indline1">Location&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.location.1">5</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.location.2">7.5</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.h.5"><b>9.4</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.location.3">10.3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.location.4">A</a></li>
-                        <li class="indline1">Max-Forwards&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.1">3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.2">7.2</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.3">7.8</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.h.6"><b>9.5</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.4">10.3</a></li>
+                        <li class="indline1">Max-Forwards&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.1">3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.2">7.2</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.3">7.8</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.h.6"><b>9.5</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.4">10.3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.5">A</a></li>
                         <li class="indline1">Referer&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.referer.1">3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.h.7"><b>9.6</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.referer.2">10.3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.referer.3">A</a></li>
                         <li class="indline1">Retry-After&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.retry-after.1">5</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.h.8"><b>9.7</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.retry-after.2">10.3</a></li>
@@ -2824 +2827 @@
             </li>
             <li class="indline0"><a id="rfc.index.M" href="#rfc.index.M"><b>M</b></a><ul class="ind">
-                  <li class="indline1">Max-Forwards header&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.1">3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.2">7.2</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.3">7.8</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.m.9"><b>9.5</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.4">10.3</a></li>
+                  <li class="indline1">Max-Forwards header&nbsp;&nbsp;<a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.1">3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.2">7.2</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.3">7.8</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.iref.m.9"><b>9.5</b></a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.4">10.3</a>, <a class="iref" href="#rfc.xref.header.max-forwards.5">A</a></li>
                   <li class="indline1">Methods&nbsp;&nbsp;
                      <ul class="ind">

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

@@ -2282 +2282 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   The Max-Forwards header field &MAY; be ignored for all other methods
-   defined by this specification and for any extension methods for which
-   it is not explicitly referred to as part of that method definition.
+   The Max-Forwards header field &MAY; be ignored for all other methods.
 </t>
 </section>
@@ -3464 +3462 @@
 </t>
 <t>
+  Restrict Max-Forwards header field to OPTIONS and TRACE (previously,
+  extension methods could have used it as well).
+  (<xref target="header.max-forwards"/>)
+</t>
+<t>
   Allow Referer field value of "about:blank" as alternative to not specifying it. 
   (<xref target="header.referer"/>)
@@ -3991 +3994 @@
     </t>
     <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/203"/>:
+      "Max-Forwards vs extension methods"
+    </t>
+    <t>
       <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/226"/>:
       "proxies not supporting certain methods"