Changeset 2528

Timestamp:

02/01/14 08:11:50 (7 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

clarify ABNF layering for field names (see #540)

Location:

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest

Files:

• p1-messaging.html (modified) (6 diffs)
• p1-messaging.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

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

@@ -448 +448 @@
   }
   @bottom-center {
-       content: "Expires July 5, 2014";
+       content: "Expires July 6, 2014";
   }
   @bottom-right {
@@ -490 +490 @@
       <meta name="dct.creator" content="Reschke, J. F.">
       <meta name="dct.identifier" content="urn:ietf:id:draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-latest">
-      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2014-01-01">
+      <meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2014-01-02">
       <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2145">
       <meta name="dct.replaces" content="urn:ietf:rfc:2616">
@@ -519 +519 @@
             <tr>
                <td class="left">Intended status: Standards Track</td>
-               <td class="right">January 1, 2014</td>
+               <td class="right">January 2, 2014</td>
             </tr>
             <tr>
-               <td class="left">Expires: July 5, 2014</td>
+               <td class="left">Expires: July 6, 2014</td>
                <td class="right"></td>
             </tr>
@@ -551 +551 @@
             in progress”.
          </p>
-         <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on July 5, 2014.</p>
+         <p>This Internet-Draft will expire on July 6, 2014.</p>
       </div>
       <div id="rfc.copyrightnotice">
@@ -1283 +1283 @@
 </pre><p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.3">The field-name token labels the corresponding field-value as having the semantics defined by that header field. For example,
                the <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" class="smpl">Date</a> header field is defined in <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.date" title="Date">Section 7.1.1.2</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.9"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a> as containing the origination timestamp for the message in which it appears.
+            </p>
+            <p id="rfc.section.3.2.p.4">Extraction of field-name/field-value pairs from a message is generic and thus independent of the actual field name. Consequently,
+               the ABNF specified for each header field only defines the syntax of the field-value (not the whole header-field, as it was
+               the case in previous revisions of this specification).
             </p>
             <div id="field.extensibility">
@@ -3437 +3441 @@
                </li>
                <li>&lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/528">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/528</a>&gt;: "Redundant rule quoted-str-nf"
+               </li>
+               <li>&lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/540">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/540</a>&gt;: "clarify ABNF layering"
                </li>
                <li>&lt;<a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/541">http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/541</a>&gt;: "use of 'word' ABNF production"

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

@@ -1235 +1235 @@
    header field is defined in &header-date; as containing the origination
    timestamp for the message in which it appears.
+</t>
+<t>
+   Extraction of field-name/field-value pairs from a message is generic and
+   thus independent of the actual field name. Consequently, the ABNF specified
+   for each header field only defines the syntax of the field-value (not the
+   whole header-field, as it was the case in previous revisions of this
+   specification).
 </t>
 
@@ -5425 +5432 @@
     </t>
     <t>
+      <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/540"/>:
+      "clarify ABNF layering"
+    </t>
+    <t>
       <eref target="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/541"/>:
       "use of 'word' ABNF production"