Changeset 245 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.xml

Timestamp:

May 15, 2008, 4:38:23 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

Resolve #116: allow weak entity tags in all requests except range requests (closes #116).

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p4-conditional.xml

@@ -425 +425 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   Clients &MAY; issue simple (non-subrange) GET requests with either weak
-   validators or strong validators. Clients &MUST-NOT; use weak validators
-   in other forms of request.
+   Clients &MUST-NOT; use weak validators in range requests (<xref target="Part5"/>). 
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -501 +499 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   A cache or origin server receiving a conditional request, other than
-   a full-body GET request, &MUST; use the strong comparison function to
+   A cache or origin server receiving a conditional range request
+   (<xref target="Part5"/>) &MUST; use the strong comparison function to
    evaluate the condition.
 </t>
@@ -852 +850 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   See <xref target="weak.and.strong.validators"/> for rules on how to determine if two entities tags
-   match. The weak comparison function can only be used with GET or HEAD
-   requests.
+   See <xref target="weak.and.strong.validators"/> for rules on how to
+   determine if two entity tags match.
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -1228 +1225 @@
 
 <section title="Changes from RFC 2616" anchor="changes.from.rfc.2616">
+<t>
+  Allow weak entity tags in all requests except range requests (Sections
+  <xref target="weak.and.strong.validators" format="counter"/> and
+  <xref target="header.if-none-match" format="counter"/>).
+</t>
 </section>
 
@@ -1273 +1275 @@
 <section title="Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-02">
 <t>
+  Closed issues:
+  <list style="symbols"> 
+    <t>
+      <eref target="http://www3.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/116"/>:
+      "Weak ETags on non-GET requests"
+    </t>
+  </list>
 </t>
 </section>