Changeset 1459 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p5-range.xml

Timestamp:

27/10/11 20:12:13 (11 years ago)

Author:

ylafon@…

Message:

Clarify that Content-Range has no meaning for status codes not explicitly allowing it (206, 416)
This addresses #301

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p5-range.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p5-range.xml

@@ -607 +607 @@
 </t>
 <t>
+  The "Content-Range" header field has no meaning for status codes that does not 
+  explicitly describe its semantic. Currently, only status codes
+  206 (Partial Content) and 416 (Requested range not satisfiable) describe
+  the meaning of this header field.
+</t>
+<t>
    Examples of byte-content-range-spec values, assuming that the representation
    contains a total of 1234 bytes:
@@ -1799 +1805 @@
       "case sensitivity of ranges in p5"
     </t>
+    <t>
+      <eref target="http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/301"/>:
+      "Content-Range on responses other than 206"
+    </t>
   </list>
 </t>