Changeset 2088 for draft-ietf-httpbis


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05/01/13 11:42:34 (10 years ago)
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(editorial) Clarify that GET means retrieval; addresses #315

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  • draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p2-semantics.html

    r2087 r2088  
    13871387      <h3 id="rfc.section.4.3.1"><a href="#rfc.section.4.3.1">4.3.1</a>&nbsp;<a id="GET" href="#GET">GET</a></h3>
    13881388      <div id="rfc.iref.g.16"></div>
    1389       <p id="rfc.section.4.3.1.p.1">The GET method requests transfer of a current representation of the <a href="#resources" class="smpl">target resource</a>.
     1389      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.1.p.1">The GET method requests transfer of a current representation of the <a href="#resources" class="smpl">target resource</a>. GET is the primary mechanism of information retrieval and the focus of almost all performance optimizations. Hence, when
     1390         people speak of retrieving some identifiable information via HTTP, they are generally referring to making a GET request.
    13901391      </p>
    13911392      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.1.p.2">If the target resource is a data-producing process, the produced data will be sent as the representation, not the source text
    … …  
    15661567      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.7.p.1">The OPTIONS method requests information about the communication options available on the request/response chain identified
    15671568         by the effective request URI. This method allows a client to determine the options and/or requirements associated with a resource,
    1568          or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action or initiating a resource retrieval.
     1569         or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action.
    15691570      </p>
    15701571      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.7.p.2">Responses to the OPTIONS method are not cacheable.</p>

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

    r2087 r2088  
    12361236<t>
    12371237   The GET method requests transfer of a current representation of
    1238    the <x:ref>target resource</x:ref>.
     1238   the <x:ref>target resource</x:ref>. GET is the primary mechanism of
     1239   information retrieval and the focus of almost all performance
     1240   optimizations. Hence, when people speak of retrieving some identifiable
     1241   information via HTTP, they are generally referring to making a GET request.
    12391242</t>
    12401243<t>   
    … …  
    16241627   identified by the effective request URI. This method allows a client to
    16251628   determine the options and/or requirements associated with a resource,
    1626    or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action
    1627    or initiating a resource retrieval.
     1629   or the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource action.
    16281630</t>
    16291631<t>

  • draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.html

    r2082 r2088  
    452452  }
    453453  @bottom-center {
    454        content: "Expires July 8, 2013";
     454       content: "Expires July 9, 2013";
    455455  }
    456456  @bottom-right {
    … …  
    498498      <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F.">
    499499      <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-latest">
    500       <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2013-01-04">
     500      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2013-01-05">
    501501      <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616">
    502502      <meta name="dct.abstract" content="The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document defines requirements on HTTP caches and the associated header fields that control cache behavior or indicate cacheable response messages.">
    … …  
    524524            </tr>
    525525            <tr>
    526                <td class="left">Expires: July 8, 2013</td>
     526               <td class="left">Expires: July 9, 2013</td>
    527527               <td class="right">J. Reschke, Editor</td>
    528528            </tr>
    … …  
    533533            <tr>
    534534               <td class="left"></td>
    535                <td class="right">January 4, 2013</td>
     535               <td class="right">January 5, 2013</td>
    536536            </tr>
    537537         </tbody>
    … …  
    559559         in progress”.
    560560      </p>
    561       <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on July 8, 2013.</p>
     561      <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on July 9, 2013.</p>
    562562      <h1><a id="rfc.copyrightnotice" href="#rfc.copyrightnotice">Copyright Notice</a></h1>
    563563      <p>Copyright © 2013 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved.</p>
    … …  
    795795      </p>
    796796      <p id="rfc.section.2.p.2">Each <dfn>cache entry</dfn> consists of a cache key and one or more HTTP responses corresponding to prior requests that used the same key. The most common
    797          form of cache entry is a successful result of a retrieval request: i.e., a <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.200" class="smpl">200 (OK)</a> response containing a representation of the resource identified by the request target. However, it is also possible to cache
    798          negative results (e.g., <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.404" class="smpl">404 (Not
    799             Found)</a>, incomplete results (e.g., <a href="p5-range.html#status.206" class="smpl">206 (Partial
    800             Content)</a>), and responses to methods other than GET if the method's definition allows such caching and defines something suitable for
     797         form of cache entry is a successful result of a retrieval request: i.e., a <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.200" class="smpl">200 (OK)</a> response to a GET request, which contains a representation of the resource identified by the request target (<a href="p2-semantics.html#GET" title="GET">Section 4.3.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.2"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>). However, it is also possible to cache negative results (e.g., <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.404" class="smpl">404 (Not Found)</a>), incomplete results (e.g., <a href="p5-range.html#status.206" class="smpl">206 (Partial Content)</a>), and responses to methods other than GET if the method's definition allows such caching and defines something suitable for
    801798         use as a cache key.
    802799      </p>
    … …  
    886883      <p id="rfc.section.4.p.3">When a stored response is used to satisfy a request without validation, a cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> send a single <a href="#header.age" class="smpl">Age</a> header field (<a href="#header.age" id="rfc.xref.header.age.1" title="Age">Section&nbsp;7.1</a>) in the response with a value equal to the stored response's current_age; see <a href="#age.calculations" title="Calculating Age">Section&nbsp;4.1.3</a>.
    887884      </p>
    888       <p id="rfc.section.4.p.4">A cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> write through requests with methods that are unsafe (<a href="p2-semantics.html#safe.methods" title="Safe Methods">Section 4.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.2"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>) to the origin server; i.e., a cache is not allowed to generate a reply to such a request before having forwarded the request
     885      <p id="rfc.section.4.p.4">A cache <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> write through requests with methods that are unsafe (<a href="p2-semantics.html#safe.methods" title="Safe Methods">Section 4.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.3"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>) to the origin server; i.e., a cache is not allowed to generate a reply to such a request before having forwarded the request
    889886         and having received a corresponding response.
    890887      </p>
    … …  
    940937      <h3 id="rfc.section.4.1.2"><a href="#rfc.section.4.1.2">4.1.2</a>&nbsp;<a id="heuristic.freshness" href="#heuristic.freshness">Calculating Heuristic Freshness</a></h3>
    941938      <p id="rfc.section.4.1.2.p.1">If no explicit expiration time is present in a stored response that has a status code whose definition allows heuristic freshness
    942          to be used (including the following in <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.codes" title="Response Status Codes">Section 6</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.3"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>: <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.200" class="smpl">200 (OK)</a>, <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.203" class="smpl">203 (Non-Authoritative Information)</a>, <a href="p5-range.html#status.206" class="smpl">206 (Partial
     939         to be used (including the following in <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.codes" title="Response Status Codes">Section 6</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.4"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>: <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.200" class="smpl">200 (OK)</a>, <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.203" class="smpl">203 (Non-Authoritative Information)</a>, <a href="p5-range.html#status.206" class="smpl">206 (Partial
    943940            Content)</a>, <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.300" class="smpl">300 (Multiple Choices)</a>, <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.301" class="smpl">301 (Moved
    944941            Permanently)</a> and <a href="p2-semantics.html#status.410" class="smpl">410 (Gone)</a>), a cache <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> calculate a heuristic expiration time. A cache <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> use heuristics to determine freshness for responses with status codes that do not explicitly allow it.
    … …  
    972969      </p>
    973970      <ul class="empty">
    974          <li>The term "date_value" denotes the value of the Date header field, in a form appropriate for arithmetic operations. See <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" title="Date">Section 7.1.1.2</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.4"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a> for the definition of the Date header field, and for requirements regarding responses without it.
     971         <li>The term "date_value" denotes the value of the Date header field, in a form appropriate for arithmetic operations. See <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" title="Date">Section 7.1.1.2</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.5"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a> for the definition of the Date header field, and for requirements regarding responses without it.
    975972         </li>
    976973      </ul>
    … …  
    10921089      </ul>
    10931090      <h2 id="rfc.section.4.3"><a href="#rfc.section.4.3">4.3</a>&nbsp;<a id="caching.negotiated.responses" href="#caching.negotiated.responses">Using Negotiated Responses</a></h2>
    1094       <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.1">When a cache receives a request that can be satisfied by a stored response that has a <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.vary" class="smpl">Vary</a> header field (<a href="p2-semantics.html#header.vary" title="Vary">Section 7.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.5"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>), it <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> use that response unless all of the selecting header fields nominated by the Vary header field match in both the original
     1091      <p id="rfc.section.4.3.p.1">When a cache receives a request that can be satisfied by a stored response that has a <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.vary" class="smpl">Vary</a> header field (<a href="p2-semantics.html#header.vary" title="Vary">Section 7.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.6"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>), it <em class="bcp14">MUST NOT</em> use that response unless all of the selecting header fields nominated by the Vary header field match in both the original
    10951092         request (i.e., that associated with the stored response), and the presented request.
    10961093      </p>
    … …  
    11511148      </ul>
    11521149      <h1 id="rfc.section.6"><a href="#rfc.section.6">6.</a>&nbsp;<a id="invalidation.after.updates.or.deletions" href="#invalidation.after.updates.or.deletions">Request Methods that Invalidate</a></h1>
    1153       <p id="rfc.section.6.p.1">Because unsafe request methods (<a href="p2-semantics.html#safe.methods" title="Safe Methods">Section 4.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.6"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>) such as PUT, POST or DELETE have the potential for changing state on the origin server, intervening caches can use them
     1150      <p id="rfc.section.6.p.1">Because unsafe request methods (<a href="p2-semantics.html#safe.methods" title="Safe Methods">Section 4.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.7"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>) such as PUT, POST or DELETE have the potential for changing state on the origin server, intervening caches can use them
    11541151         to keep their contents up-to-date.
    11551152      </p>
    … …  
    14191416         that time.
    14201417      </p>
    1421       <p id="rfc.section.7.3.p.3">The Expires value is an HTTP-date timestamp, as defined in <a href="p2-semantics.html#http.date" title="Date/Time Formats">Section 7.1.1.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.7"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>.
     1418      <p id="rfc.section.7.3.p.3">The Expires value is an HTTP-date timestamp, as defined in <a href="p2-semantics.html#http.date" title="Date/Time Formats">Section 7.1.1.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.8"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>.
    14221419      </p>
    14231420      <div id="rfc.figure.u.9"></div><pre class="inline"><span id="rfc.iref.g.5"></span>  <a href="#header.expires" class="smpl">Expires</a> = <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a>
    … …  
    17761773      <h1 id="rfc.section.10"><a href="#rfc.section.10">10.</a>&nbsp;<a id="security.considerations" href="#security.considerations">Security Considerations</a></h1>
    17771774      <p id="rfc.section.10.p.1">This section is meant to inform developers, information providers, and users of known security concerns specific to HTTP/1.1
    1778          caching. More general security considerations are addressed in HTTP messaging <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.11"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a> and semantics <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.8"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>.
     1775         caching. More general security considerations are addressed in HTTP messaging <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.11"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a> and semantics <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.9"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>.
    17791776      </p>
    17801777      <p id="rfc.section.10.p.2">Caches expose additional potential vulnerabilities, since the contents of the cache represent an attractive target for malicious
    … …  
    19521949  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">uri-host</a>      = &lt;uri-host, defined in <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.20"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>, <a href="p1-messaging.html#uri" title="Uniform Resource Identifiers">Section 2.7</a>&gt;
    19531950</pre><p id="rfc.section.B.p.4">The rules below are defined in other parts:</p>
    1954       <div id="rfc.figure.u.15"></div><pre class="inline">  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a>     = &lt;HTTP-date, defined in <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.9"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>, <a href="p2-semantics.html#http.date" title="Date/Time Formats">Section 7.1.1.1</a>&gt;
     1951      <div id="rfc.figure.u.15"></div><pre class="inline">  <a href="#imported.abnf" class="smpl">HTTP-date</a>     = &lt;HTTP-date, defined in <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.10"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>, <a href="p2-semantics.html#http.date" title="Date/Time Formats">Section 7.1.1.1</a>&gt;
    19551952</pre><h1 id="rfc.section.C"><a href="#rfc.section.C">C.</a>&nbsp;<a id="collected.abnf" href="#collected.abnf">Collected ABNF</a></h1>
    19561953      <div id="rfc.figure.u.16"></div> <pre class="inline"><a href="#header.age" class="smpl">Age</a> = delta-seconds
    … …  
    21382135                     </ul>
    21392136                  </li>
    2140                   <li><em>Part2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.2">4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.3">4.1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.4">4.1.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.5">4.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.6">6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.7">7.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.8">10</a>, <a href="#Part2"><b>12.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.9">B</a><ul>
    2141                         <li><em>Section 4.2.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.2">4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.6">6</a></li>
    2142                         <li><em>Section 6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.3">4.1.2</a></li>
    2143                         <li><em>Section 7.1.1.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.7">7.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.9">B</a></li>
    2144                         <li><em>Section 7.1.1.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.4">4.1.3</a></li>
    2145                         <li><em>Section 7.2.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.5">4.3</a></li>
     2137                  <li><em>Part2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.1">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.2">2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.3">4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.4">4.1.2</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.5">4.1.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.6">4.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.7">6</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.8">7.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.9">10</a>, <a href="#Part2"><b>12.1</b></a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.10">B</a><ul>
     2138                        <li><em>Section 4.2.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.3">4</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.7">6</a></li>
     2139                        <li><em>Section 4.3.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.2">2</a></li>
     2140                        <li><em>Section 6</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.4">4.1.2</a></li>
     2141                        <li><em>Section 7.1.1.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.8">7.3</a>, <a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.10">B</a></li>
     2142                        <li><em>Section 7.1.1.2</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.5">4.1.3</a></li>
     2143                        <li><em>Section 7.2.1</em>&nbsp;&nbsp;<a href="#rfc.xref.Part2.6">4.3</a></li>
    21462144                     </ul>
    21472145                  </li>

  • draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p6-cache.xml

    r2082 r2088  
    3838  <!ENTITY header-via                  "<xref target='Part1' x:rel='#header.via' xmlns:x='http://purl.org/net/xml2rfc/ext'/>">
    3939  <!ENTITY header-fields               "<xref target='Part1' x:rel='#header.fields' xmlns:x='http://purl.org/net/xml2rfc/ext'/>">
     40  <!ENTITY GET                         "<xref target='Part2' x:rel='#GET' xmlns:x='http://purl.org/net/xml2rfc/ext'/>">
    4041  <!ENTITY safe-methods                "<xref target='Part2' x:rel='#safe.methods' xmlns:x='http://purl.org/net/xml2rfc/ext'/>">
    4142  <!ENTITY entity-tags                 "<xref target='Part4' x:rel='#header.etag' xmlns:x='http://purl.org/net/xml2rfc/ext'/>">
    … …  
    344345   HTTP responses corresponding to prior requests that used the same key. The
    345346   most common form of cache entry is a successful result of a retrieval
    346    request: i.e., a <x:ref>200 (OK)</x:ref> response containing a
    347    representation of the resource identified by the request target. However,
    348    it is also possible to cache negative results (e.g., <x:ref>404 (Not
    349    Found)</x:ref>, incomplete results (e.g., <x:ref>206 (Partial
    350    Content)</x:ref>), and responses to methods other than GET if the method's
    351    definition allows such caching and defines something suitable for use as a
    352    cache key.
     347   request: i.e., a <x:ref>200 (OK)</x:ref> response to a GET request, which
     348   contains a representation of the resource identified by the request target
     349   (&GET;). However, it is also possible to cache
     350   negative results (e.g., <x:ref>404 (Not Found)</x:ref>),
     351   incomplete results (e.g., <x:ref>206 (Partial Content)</x:ref>), and
     352   responses to methods other than GET if the method's definition allows such
     353   caching and defines something suitable for use as a cache key.
    353354</t>
    354355<t>
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