Changeset 1912 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.xml

Timestamp:

22/09/12 08:24:07 (10 years ago)

Author:

fielding@…

Message:

fix recently added intro text that incorrectly implied that a HEAD response's representation header fields would be the same as a 200 response for GET; they are the headers for any status code.

File:

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

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

@@ -308 +308 @@
   <x:anchor-alias value="representation-header"/>
 <t>
-   Representation header fields define metadata about the representation data
-   enclosed in the message body or, if no message body is present, about
-   the representation that would have been transferred in a <x:ref>200 (OK)</x:ref>
-   response to a simultaneous GET request with the same effective request URI.
+   Representation header fields provide metadata about the representation.
+   When a message includes a payload body, the representation header fields
+   describe how to interpret the representation data enclosed in the payload
+   body.  In a response to a HEAD request, the representation header fields
+   describe the representation data that would have been enclosed in the
+   payload body if the same request had been a GET.
 </t>
 <t>