Changeset 1535 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Timestamp:

13/02/12 09:19:17 (11 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

Discourage use of chunk-extensions and deprecate definition of new ones (see #343)

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p1-messaging.html (modified) (8 diffs)
• p1-messaging.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.html

@@ -460 +460 @@
   } 
   @bottom-center {
-       content: "Expires August 10, 2012"; 
+       content: "Expires August 16, 2012"; 
   } 
   @bottom-right {
@@ -510 +510 @@
       <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F.">
       <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest">
-      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2012-02-07">
+      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2012-02-13">
       <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2145">
       <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616">
@@ -542 +542 @@
             </tr>
             <tr>
-               <td class="left">Expires: August 10, 2012</td>
+               <td class="left">Expires: August 16, 2012</td>
                <td class="right">HP</td>
             </tr>
@@ -595 +595 @@
             <tr>
                <td class="left"></td>
-               <td class="right">February 7, 2012</td>
+               <td class="right">February 13, 2012</td>
             </tr>
          </tbody>
@@ -628 +628 @@
          in progress”.
       </p>
-      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on August 10, 2012.</p>
+      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on August 16, 2012.</p>
       <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1>
       <p>Copyright © 2012 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p>
@@ -1782 +1782 @@
 </pre><p id="rfc.section.5.1.1.p.9">All HTTP/1.1 applications <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be able to receive and decode the "chunked" transfer-coding and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> ignore chunk-ext extensions they do not understand.
       </p>
-      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.1.p.10">Since "chunked" is the only transfer-coding required to be understood by HTTP/1.1 recipients, it plays a crucial role in delimiting
+      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.1.p.10">Use of chunk-ext extensions by senders is deprecated; they <em class="bcp14">SHOULD NOT</em> be sent and definition of new chunk-extensions is discouraged.
+      </p>
+      <p id="rfc.section.5.1.1.p.11">Since "chunked" is the only transfer-coding required to be understood by HTTP/1.1 recipients, it plays a crucial role in delimiting
          messages on a persistent connection. Whenever a transfer-coding is applied to a payload body in a request, the final transfer-coding
          applied <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be "chunked". If a transfer-coding is applied to a response payload body, then either the final transfer-coding applied <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be "chunked" or the message <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be terminated by closing the connection. When the "chunked" transfer-coding is used, it <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be the last transfer-coding applied to form the message-body. The "chunked" transfer-coding <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> be applied more than once in a message-body.
@@ -3079 +3081 @@
       </p>
       <p id="rfc.section.A.2.p.9">Clarification that the chunk length does not include the count of the octets in the chunk header and trailer. Furthermore
-         disallowed line folding in chunk extensions. (<a href="#chunked.encoding" title="Chunked Transfer Coding">Section&nbsp;5.1.1</a>)
+         disallowed line folding in chunk extensions, and deprecate their use. (<a href="#chunked.encoding" title="Chunked Transfer Coding">Section&nbsp;5.1.1</a>)
       </p>
       <p id="rfc.section.A.2.p.10">Remove hard limit of two connections per server. Remove requirement to retry a sequence of requests as long it was idempotent.
@@ -3603 +3605 @@
       <ul>
          <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/302">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/302</a>&gt;: "Misplaced text on connection handling in p2"
+         </li>
+         <li> &lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/343">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/343</a>&gt;: "chunk-extensions"
          </li>
       </ul>

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml

@@ -2195 +2195 @@
    "chunked" transfer-coding and &MUST; ignore chunk-ext extensions
    they do not understand.
+</t>
+<t>
+   Use of chunk-ext extensions by senders is deprecated; they &SHOULD-NOT; be
+   sent and definition of new chunk-extensions is discouraged. 
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -4998 +5002 @@
   Clarification that the chunk length does not include the count of the octets
   in the chunk header and trailer. Furthermore disallowed line folding
-  in chunk extensions.
+  in chunk extensions, and deprecate their use.
   (<xref target="chunked.encoding"/>)
 </t>
@@ -5927 +5931 @@
       "Misplaced text on connection handling in p2"
     </t>
+    <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/343"/>:
+      "chunk-extensions"
+    </t>
   </list>
 </t>