Changeset 1900 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml

Timestamp:

Sep 15, 2012, 11:35:33 PM (7 years ago)

Author:

fielding@…

Message:

(editorial) further simplify representation; remove bits that are defined under payload

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

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

@@ -316 +316 @@
    if the request is successfully applied, whereas a representation in the
    payload of a POST request (<xref target="POST"/>) represents an anonymous
-   resource for providing data to be processed, such as a specific encoding
-   format for the information that a user entered within an HTML form.
+   resource for providing data to be processed, such as the information that
+   a user entered within an HTML form.
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -323 +323 @@
    (<xref target="GET"/>) contains a representation of the target resource,
    as observed at the time of the message origination date
-   (<xref target="header.date"/>), whereas the same response to POST might
-   contain either a representation of the processing result or a current
-   representation of the target resource after applying the processing.
-   Response messages with an error status code usually contain a
-   representation that describes the error and what next steps are suggested
+   (<xref target="header.date"/>), whereas the same status code in a response
+   to POST might contain either a representation of the processing result or
+   a current representation of the target resource after applying the
+   processing. Some responses only contain the representation's header fields
+   as the payload. Response messages with an error status code usually contain
+   a representation that describes the error and what next steps are suggested
    for resolving it.
-</t>
-<t>
-   A representation body is only present in a message when a message body is
-   present, as described in &message-body;. The representation body is obtained
-   from the message body by decoding any <x:ref>Transfer-Encoding</x:ref> that
-   might have been applied to ensure safe and proper transfer of the message.
 </t>