Changeset 2083 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml

Timestamp:

05/01/13 07:12:36 (9 years ago)

Author:

fielding@…

Message:

Requirements are not allowed in appendices. They have been changed to prose.
Changes from RFC2616 have been rewritten for consistency and to remove changes
that are only editorial. Addresses #419

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

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

@@ -143 +143 @@
 <t>
    The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
-   request/response protocol that uses extensible semantics and MIME-like
+   request/response protocol that uses extensible semantics and self-descriptive
    message payloads for flexible interaction with network-based hypertext
    information systems. This document is the first in a series of documents
@@ -4676 +4676 @@
 <t>
    HTTP/1.1 introduces the <x:ref>Transfer-Encoding</x:ref> header field
-   (<xref target="header.transfer-encoding"/>). Proxies/gateways &MUST; remove
-   any transfer coding prior to forwarding a message via a MIME-compliant
-   protocol.
+   (<xref target="header.transfer-encoding"/>).
+   Transfer codings need to be decoded prior to forwarding an HTTP message
+   over a MIME-compliant protocol.
 </t>
 </section>