Changeset 1641 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml

Timestamp:

Mar 30, 2012, 7:44:42 AM (8 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

Step 3 of p2/p3-merge (see #351)

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• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml (modified) (1 diff)

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

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 </t>
 
+<section title="Terminology" anchor="terminology">
+<t>
+   This specification uses a number of terms to refer to the roles
+   played by participants in, and objects of, the HTTP communication.
+</t>
+<t>
+  <iref item="content negotiation"/>
+  <x:dfn>content negotiation</x:dfn>
+  <list>
+    <t>
+      The mechanism for selecting the appropriate representation when
+      servicing a request. The representation in any response
+      can be negotiated (including error responses).
+    </t>
+  </list>
+</t>
+<t>
+  <iref primary="true" item="selected representation"/>
+  <x:dfn>selected representation</x:dfn>
+  <list>
+    <t>
+      The current representation of the target resource that would have been
+      selected in a successful response if the same request had used the
+      method GET and excluded any conditional request header fields.
+    </t>
+  </list>
+</t>
+</section>
+
 <section title="Conformance and Error Handling" anchor="intro.conformance.and.error.handling">
 <t>