Changeset 991 for draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml

Timestamp:

Sep 6, 2010, 8:38:00 AM (9 years ago)

Author:

julian.reschke@…

Message:

introduce the terms "path-absolute form" and "asterisk form" (of request-target) (related to #221)

File:

• draft-ietf-httpbis/latest/p1-messaging.xml (modified) (5 diffs)

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

@@ -1513 +1513 @@
    request.
 </t>   
-<t>
-   The asterisk "*" means that the request does not apply to a
+<t><iref item="asterisk form (of request-target)"/>
+   The asterisk "*" ("asterisk form") means that the request does not apply to a
    particular resource, but to the server itself, and is only allowed
    when the method used does not necessarily apply to a resource. One
@@ -1522 +1522 @@
 OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1
 </artwork></figure>
-<t>
+<t><iref item="absolute-URI form (of request-target)"/>
    The absolute-URI form is &REQUIRED; when the request is being made to a
    proxy. The proxy is requested to forward the request or service it
@@ -1541 +1541 @@
    them in requests to proxies.
 </t>
-<t>
+<t><iref item="authority form (of request-target)"/>
    The authority form is only used by the CONNECT method (&CONNECT;).
 </t>
-<t>
+<t><iref item="path-absolute form (of request-target)"/>
    The most common form of request-target is that used to identify a
-   resource on an origin server or gateway. In this case the absolute
+   resource on an origin server or gateway ("path-absolute form"). In this case the absolute
    path of the URI &MUST; be transmitted (see <xref target="http.uri"/>, path-absolute) as
    the request-target, and the network location of the URI (authority) &MUST;
@@ -1679 +1679 @@
 </t>
 <t>
-   If the request-target uses the path-absolute (plus optional query) syntax
-   or if it is just the asterisk "*", then the effective request URI is
-   constructed by concatenating
+   If the request-target uses the path-absolute form or the asterisk form,
+   then the effective request URI is constructed by concatenating
 </t>
 <t>
@@ -1694 +1693 @@
     </t>
     <t>
-      the authority component, as specified in the Host header
+      the authority component, as specified in the Host header field
       (<xref target="header.host"/>) and determined by the rules in
       <xref target="the.resource.identified.by.a.request"/>,