Changeset 1458 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.html

Timestamp:

27/10/11 19:55:03 (11 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

Recommend header field syntax where field-recombination using "," can be detected (see #231)

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.html (modified) (6 diffs)

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

@@ -359 +359 @@
   } 
   @bottom-center {
-       content: "Expires April 25, 2012"; 
+       content: "Expires April 29, 2012"; 
   } 
   @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="2011-10-23">
+      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2011-10-27">
       <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, hypertext 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: April 25, 2012</td>
+               <td class="left">Expires: April 29, 2012</td>
                <td class="right">HP</td>
             </tr>
@@ -493 +493 @@
             <tr>
                <td class="left"></td>
-               <td class="right">October 23, 2011</td>
+               <td class="right">October 27, 2011</td>
             </tr>
          </tbody>
@@ -523 +523 @@
          in progress”.
       </p>
-      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on April 25, 2012.</p>
+      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on April 29, 2012.</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>
@@ -887 +887 @@
             <p>If it does not use the list syntax, how to treat messages where the header field occurs multiple times (a sensible default
                would be to ignore the header field, but this might not always be the right choice).
+            </p>
+            <p>Furthermore, intermediaries and software libraries might combine multiple header field instances into a single one, despite
+               the header field not allowing this. A robust format enables recipients to discover these situations (good example: "Content-Type",
+               as the comma can only appear inside quoted strings; bad example: "Location", as a comma can occur inside a URI).
             </p>
          </li>