Changeset 660 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml
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r651 r660 4362 4362 </section> 4363 4363 4364 <section title="Terminology" anchor="terminology">4365 <t>4366 This specification uses a number of terms to refer to the roles4367 played by participants in, and objects of, the HTTP communication.4368 </t>4369 <t>4370 <iref item="content negotiation"/>4371 <x:dfn>content negotiation</x:dfn>4372 <list>4373 <t>4374 The mechanism for selecting the appropriate representation when4375 servicing a request, as described in &content.negotiation;. The4376 representation of entities in any response can be negotiated4377 (including error responses).4378 </t>4379 </list>4380 </t>4381 <t>4382 <iref item="entity"/>4383 <x:dfn>entity</x:dfn>4384 <list>4385 <t>4386 The information transferred as the payload of a request or4387 response. An entity consists of metadata in the form of4388 entity-header fields and content in the form of an entity-body, as4389 described in &entity;.4390 </t>4391 </list>4392 </t>4393 <t>4394 <iref item="representation"/>4395 <x:dfn>representation</x:dfn>4396 <list>4397 <t>4398 An entity included with a response that is subject to content4399 negotiation, as described in &content.negotiation;. There may exist multiple4400 representations associated with a particular response status.4401 </t>4402 </list>4403 </t>4404 <t>4405 <iref item="variant"/>4406 <x:dfn>variant</x:dfn>4407 <list>4408 <t>4409 A resource may have one, or more than one, representation(s)4410 associated with it at any given instant. Each of these4411 representations is termed a `variant'. Use of the term `variant'4412 does not necessarily imply that the resource is subject to content4413 negotiation.4414 </t>4415 </list>4416 </t>4417 </section>4418 4419 4364 <section xmlns:x="http://purl.org/net/xml2rfc/ext" title="Collected ABNF" anchor="collected.abnf"> 4420 4365 <figure>
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