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Changeset 1650 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.html
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r1647 r1650 1223 1223 ; see <a href="#field.parsing" title="Field Parsing">Section 3.2.2</a> 1224 1224 </pre><p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.3">The field-name token labels the corresponding field-value as having the semantics defined by that header field. For example, 1225 the Date header field is defined in <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" title="Date">Section 7.10</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.7"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a> as containing the origination timestamp for the message in which it appears.1225 the Date header field is defined in <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" title="Date">Section 9.10</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.7"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a> as containing the origination timestamp for the message in which it appears. 1226 1226 </p> 1227 1227 <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.4">HTTP header fields are fully extensible: there is no limit on the introduction of new field names, each presumably defining … … 1418 1418 <p id="rfc.section.3.3.1.p.6">If more than one Transfer-Encoding header field is present in a message, the multiple field-values <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> be combined into one field-value, according to the algorithm defined in <a href="#header.fields" title="Header Fields">Section 3.2</a>, before determining the message body length. 1419 1419 </p> 1420 <p id="rfc.section.3.3.1.p.7">Unlike Content-Encoding (<a href="p2-semantics.html#content.codings" title="Content Codings">Section 6.4</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.9"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>), Transfer-Encoding is a property of the message, not of the payload, and thus <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be added or removed by any implementation along the request/response chain. Additional information about the encoding parameters <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be provided by other header fields not defined by this specification.1420 <p id="rfc.section.3.3.1.p.7">Unlike Content-Encoding (<a href="p2-semantics.html#content.codings" title="Content Codings">Section 5.4</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.9"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>), Transfer-Encoding is a property of the message, not of the payload, and thus <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be added or removed by any implementation along the request/response chain. Additional information about the encoding parameters <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be provided by other header fields not defined by this specification. 1421 1421 </p> 1422 1422 <p id="rfc.section.3.3.1.p.8">Transfer-Encoding <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be sent in a response to a HEAD request or in a 304 response to a GET request, neither of which includes a message body, to … … 1725 1725 </p> 1726 1726 <h3 id="rfc.section.4.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.4.3.1">4.3.1</a> <a id="quality.values" href="#quality.values">Quality Values</a></h3> 1727 <p id="rfc.section.4.3.1.p.1">Both transfer codings (TE request header field, <a href="#header.te" id="rfc.xref.header.te.3" title="TE">Section 4.3</a>) and content negotiation (<a href="p2-semantics.html#content.negotiation" title="Content Negotiation"> Appendix F.3</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.10"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) use short "floating point" numbers to indicate the relative importance ("weight") of various negotiable parameters. A weight1727 <p id="rfc.section.4.3.1.p.1">Both transfer codings (TE request header field, <a href="#header.te" id="rfc.xref.header.te.3" title="TE">Section 4.3</a>) and content negotiation (<a href="p2-semantics.html#content.negotiation" title="Content Negotiation">Section 8</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.10"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) use short "floating point" numbers to indicate the relative importance ("weight") of various negotiable parameters. A weight 1728 1728 is normalized to a real number in the range 0 through 1, where 0 is the minimum and 1 the maximum value. If a parameter has 1729 1729 a quality value of 0, then content with this parameter is "not acceptable" for the client. HTTP/1.1 applications <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> generate more than three digits after the decimal point. User configuration of these values <em class="bcp14">SHOULD</em> also be limited in this fashion. … … 2187 2187 <p id="rfc.section.6.4.3.p.2">Requirements for HTTP/1.1 clients: </p> 2188 2188 <ul> 2189 <li>If a client will wait for a 100 (Continue) response before sending the request body, it <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> send an Expect header field (<a href="p2-semantics.html#header.expect" title="Expect">Section 7.11</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.19"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) with the "100-continue" expectation.2190 </li> 2191 <li>A client <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> send an Expect header field (<a href="p2-semantics.html#header.expect" title="Expect">Section 7.11</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.20"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) with the "100-continue" expectation if it does not intend to send a request body.2189 <li>If a client will wait for a 100 (Continue) response before sending the request body, it <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> send an Expect header field (<a href="p2-semantics.html#header.expect" title="Expect">Section 9.11</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.19"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) with the "100-continue" expectation. 2190 </li> 2191 <li>A client <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> send an Expect header field (<a href="p2-semantics.html#header.expect" title="Expect">Section 9.11</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.20"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) with the "100-continue" expectation if it does not intend to send a request body. 2192 2192 </li> 2193 2193 </ul> … … 2534 2534 <li>Pointer to specification text</li> 2535 2535 </ul> 2536 <p id="rfc.section.7.4.p.3">Names of transfer codings <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> overlap with names of content codings (<a href="p2-semantics.html#content.codings" title="Content Codings">Section 6.4</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.23"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) unless the encoding transformation is identical, as it is the case for the compression codings defined in <a href="#compression.codings" title="Compression Codings">Section 4.2</a>.2536 <p id="rfc.section.7.4.p.3">Names of transfer codings <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> overlap with names of content codings (<a href="p2-semantics.html#content.codings" title="Content Codings">Section 5.4</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.23"><cite title="HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics">[Part2]</cite></a>) unless the encoding transformation is identical, as it is the case for the compression codings defined in <a href="#compression.codings" title="Compression Codings">Section 4.2</a>. 2537 2537 </p> 2538 2538 <p id="rfc.section.7.4.p.4">Values to be added to this name space require IETF Review (see <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5226#section-4.1">Section 4.1</a> of <a href="#RFC5226" id="rfc.xref.RFC5226.1"><cite title="Guidelines for Writing an IANA Considerations Section in RFCs">[RFC5226]</cite></a>), and <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> conform to the purpose of transfer coding defined in this section. … … 3758 3758 <li><em>Section 4.6</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.25">8.6</a></li> 3759 3759 <li><em>Section 4.6.12</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.5">3.1.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.24">8.6</a></li> 3760 <li><em>Section 6.4</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.9">3.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.23">7.4</a></li> 3761 <li><em>Section 7.10</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.7">3.2</a></li> 3762 <li><em>Section 7.11</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.19">6.4.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.20">6.4.3</a></li> 3760 <li><em>Section 5.4</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.9">3.3.1</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.23">7.4</a></li> 3761 <li><em>Section 8</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.10">4.3.1</a></li> 3762 <li><em>Section 9.10</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.7">3.2</a></li> 3763 <li><em>Section 9.11</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.19">6.4.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.20">6.4.3</a></li> 3763 3764 <li><em>Appendix A</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.1">1</a></li> 3764 <li><em>Appendix F.3</em> <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.10">4.3.1</a></li>3765 3765 </ul> 3766 3766 </li>
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