Changeset 698 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p5-range.xml

Timestamp:

Sep 26, 2009, 3:09:09 AM (10 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

editorial: enhance readability of header introductions

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p5-range.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p5-range.xml

@@ -458 +458 @@
   <x:anchor-alias value="acceptable-ranges"/>
 <t>
-   The "Accept-Ranges" response-header field allows the server to
-   indicate its acceptance of range requests for a resource:
+   The "Accept-Ranges" response-header field allows a resource to indicate
+   its acceptance of range requests.
 </t>
 <figure><artwork type="abnf2616"><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="Accept-Ranges"/><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="Accept-Ranges-v"/><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="acceptable-ranges"/>
@@ -807 +807 @@
   <x:anchor-alias value="other-range-set"/>
 <t>
-   HTTP retrieval requests using conditional or unconditional GET
-   methods &MAY; request one or more sub-ranges of the entity, instead of
-   the entire entity, using the Range request header, which applies to
-   the entity returned as the result of the request:
+   The "Range" request-header field defines the GET method (conditional or
+   not) to request one or more sub-ranges of the response entity-body, instead
+   of the entire entity body.
 </t>
 <figure><artwork type="abnf2616"><iref primary="true" item="Grammar" subitem="Range"/>