| HTTPbis Working Group | J. F. Reschke |
| Internet-Draft | greenbytes |
| Intended status: Informational | February 06, 2014 |
| Expires: August 10, 2014 |
Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-15
This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods which have been defined in RFCs before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.
Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTPBIS working group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/.
The current issues list is at http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/query?component=method-registrations and related documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/.
The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix A.2.
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This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods which have been defined in RFCs other than [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.
There are no security considerations related to the registration itself.
Security considerations applicable to the individual HTTP methods ought to be discussed in the specifications that define them.
The table below provides registrations of HTTP method names to be added to the IANA HTTP Method registry at http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods (see Section 8.1 of [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics]).
| Method Name | Safe | Idempotent | Reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACL | no | yes | [RFC3744], Section 8.1 |
| BASELINE-CONTROL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 12.6 |
| BIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 4 |
| CHECKIN | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.4 and [RFC3253], Section 9.4 |
| CHECKOUT | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.3 and [RFC3253], Section 8.8 |
| COPY | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.8 |
| LABEL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 8.2 |
| LINK | no | yes | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.2 |
| LOCK | no | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.10 |
| MERGE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 11.2 |
| MKACTIVITY | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 13.5 |
| MKCALENDAR | no | yes | [RFC4791], Section 5.3.1 |
| MKCOL | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.3 |
| MKREDIRECTREF | no | yes | [RFC4437], Section 6 |
| MKWORKSPACE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 6.3 |
| MOVE | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.9 |
| ORDERPATCH | no | yes | [RFC3648], Section 7 |
| PATCH | no | no | [RFC5789], Section 2 |
| PROPFIND | yes | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.1 |
| PROPPATCH | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.2 |
| REBIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 6 |
| REPORT | yes | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.6 |
| SEARCH | yes | yes | [RFC5323], Section 2 |
| UNBIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 5 |
| UNCHECKOUT | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.5 |
| UNLINK | no | yes | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.3 |
| UNLOCK | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.11 |
| UPDATE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 7.1 |
| UPDATEREDIRECTREF | no | yes | [RFC4437], Section 7 |
| VERSION-CONTROL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.5 |
Changes up to the IETF Last Call draft are summarized in http://trac.tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-13#appendix-B.
Closed issues:
Clarified the IANA action to say "add".
Updated httpbis reference.
Closed issues:
Removed misleading statement about "standards-track" RFCs, as some of the methods registered here indeed originate from Experimental RFCs, and furthermore the new registry established in Section 8.1 of [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] uses "IETF Review".
Updated httpbis reference.