IETF 77 - HTTPbis -08/-09 Changes Overview

Julian Reschke, greenbytes

History

• -05: published November 2008 (during IETF 73)
• -06: published March 2009 (before IETF 74)
• -07: published July 2009 (before IETF 75)
• -08: published October 2009 (before IETF 76)
• -09: published March 2010 (before IETF 77)

Changes (1/3)

Part 1

• Hard connection limit removed (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/131)
• Disallow control characters in quoted-pair (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/194)
• ABNF clarifications (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/200 and http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/201)

Part 2

• Clarify "Idempotency" (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/27)
• Clarify rules for determining what entities a response carries (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/110)

Changes (2/3)

Part 3

• Update to use RFC 4647 and RFC 5646 with respect to language tag handling (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/13 and http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/181)
• Update text about Content Negotiation (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/81)

Part 4

• Fixed leftover bug with respect to weak entity tags in requests other than GET (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/116)

Changes (3/3)

Part 5

• Clarifications for custom range units (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/150)

Part 6

• Clarifications about warn codes (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/54 and http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/187)
• Clarifications about Cache-Control directives (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/169 and http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/197)
• Header-specific canonicalization (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/147)