IETF 78 - HTTPbis -10 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)
• -10: published July 2010 (before IETF 78)

Changes (1/4)

non-specific

• IANA registry for content/transfer encodings (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/143) - editorial

Changes (2/4)

Part 1

• Clarification of the term "deflate" (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/78)
• OPTIONS * and proxies (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/83)
• Case-sensitivity of HTTP-date (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/165)
• Term for the requested resource's URI(http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/196) - editorial
• use of term "word" when talking about header structure (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/200) - editorial

Changes (3/4)

Part 3

• Content Sniffing (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/155)

Part 4

• ETag uniqueness (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/39) - editorial

Changes (4/4)

Part 6

• Age Calculation (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/29)
• Request and Response CC directive requirements (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/168) - editorial
• Caching Authenticated Responses (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/174)
• IANA registry for cache-control directives (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/208)
• Heuristic Caching of URLs with Query Components (http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/211)