Changeset 1301

Timestamp:

27/05/11 10:56:52 (10 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

clarify 403 forbidden (see #294)

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p2-semantics.html (modified) (7 diffs)
• p2-semantics.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

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

@@ -359 +359 @@
   } 
   @bottom-center {
-       content: "Expires November 26, 2011"; 
+       content: "Expires November 28, 2011"; 
   } 
   @bottom-right {
@@ -409 +409 @@
       <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="2011-05-25">
+      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2011-05-27">
       <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.">
@@ -440 +440 @@
             </tr>
             <tr>
-               <td class="left">Expires: November 26, 2011</td>
+               <td class="left">Expires: November 28, 2011</td>
                <td class="right">HP</td>
             </tr>
@@ -493 +493 @@
             <tr>
                <td class="left"></td>
-               <td class="right">May 25, 2011</td>
+               <td class="right">May 27, 2011</td>
             </tr>
          </tbody>
@@ -522 +522 @@
          in progress”.
       </p>
-      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on November 26, 2011.</p>
+      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on November 28, 2011.</p>
       <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1>
       <p>Copyright © 2011 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p>
@@ -1777 +1777 @@
       <div id="rfc.iref.s.22"></div>
       <h3 id="rfc.section.8.4.4"><a href="#rfc.section.8.4.4">8.4.4</a>&nbsp;<a id="status.403" href="#status.403">403 Forbidden</a></h3>
-      <p id="rfc.section.8.4.4.p.1">The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it. Authorization will not help and the request <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> be repeated.
+      <p id="rfc.section.8.4.4.p.1">The server understood the request, but refuses to authorize it. Providing different user authentication credentials might
+         be successful, but any credentials that were provided in the request are insufficient. The request <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> be repeated with the same credentials.
       </p>
       <p id="rfc.section.8.4.4.p.2">If the request method was not HEAD and the server wishes to make public why the request has not been fulfilled, it <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> describe the reason for the refusal in the representation. If the server does not wish to make this information available
-         to the client, the status code 404 (Not Found) can be used instead.
+         to the client, the status code 404 (Not Found) <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be used instead.
       </p>
       <div id="rfc.iref.43"></div>
@@ -3043 +3044 @@
       </ul>
       <h2 id="rfc.section.C.16"><a href="#rfc.section.C.16">C.16</a>&nbsp;<a id="changes.since.14" href="#changes.since.14">Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-14</a></h2>
-      <p id="rfc.section.C.16.p.1">None yet.</p>
+      <p id="rfc.section.C.16.p.1">Closed issues: </p>
+      <ul>
+         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/294">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/294</a>&gt;: "clarify 403 forbidden"
+         </li>
+      </ul>
       <h1 id="rfc.index"><a href="#rfc.index">Index</a></h1>
       <p class="noprint"><a href="#rfc.index.1">1</a> <a href="#rfc.index.2">2</a> <a href="#rfc.index.3">3</a> <a href="#rfc.index.4">4</a> <a href="#rfc.index.5">5</a> <a href="#rfc.index.A">A</a> <a href="#rfc.index.C">C</a> <a href="#rfc.index.D">D</a> <a href="#rfc.index.E">E</a> <a href="#rfc.index.F">F</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.M">M</a> <a href="#rfc.index.O">O</a> <a href="#rfc.index.P">P</a> <a href="#rfc.index.R">R</a> <a href="#rfc.index.S">S</a> <a href="#rfc.index.T">T</a> <a href="#rfc.index.U">U</a> 

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

@@ -1770 +1770 @@
   <iref primary="true" item="Status Codes" subitem="403 Forbidden" x:for-anchor=""/>
 <t>
-   The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it.
-   Authorization will not help and the request &SHOULD-NOT;  be repeated.
+   The server understood the request, but refuses to authorize it. Providing
+   different user authentication credentials might be successful, but any
+   credentials that were provided in the request are insufficient. The request
+   &SHOULD-NOT; be repeated with the same credentials.
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -1778 +1780 @@
    reason for the refusal in the representation.  If the server does not wish to
    make this information available to the client, the status code 404
-   (Not Found) can be used instead.
+   (Not Found) &MAY; be used instead.
 </t>
 </section>
@@ -4121 +4123 @@
 <section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-14" anchor="changes.since.14">
 <t>
-  None yet.
-</t>
-</section>
-
+  Closed issues:
+  <list style="symbols"> 
+    <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/294"/>:
+      "clarify 403 forbidden"
+    </t>
+  </list>
+</t>
+</section>
 </section>