Internet DRAFT - draft-ietf-httpbis-conditional
draft-ietf-httpbis-conditional
HTTP Working Group R. Fielding, Ed.
Internet-Draft Adobe
Intended status: Standards Track M. Nottingham, Ed.
Expires: December 2, 2018 Fastly
J. Reschke, Ed.
greenbytes
May 31, 2018
HTTP Conditional Requests
draft-ietf-httpbis-conditional-01
Abstract
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-
level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information
systems. This document formerly defined HTTP conditional requests,
which has since been moved to the core HTTP Semantics document.
Editorial Note
This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.
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The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix A.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
2. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Appendix A. Changes from RFC 7232 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Authors' Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1. Introduction
Conditional requests are HTTP requests [Semantics] that include one
or more header fields indicating a precondition to be tested before
applying the method semantics to the target resource.
The entire content of this document (previously in [RFC2616] and
[RFC7232]) has been moved to [Semantics].
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2. References
2.1. Normative References
[Semantics]
Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
Ed., "HTTP Semantics", draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-01
(work in progress), May 2018.
2.2. Informative References
[RFC2616] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616,
DOI 10.17487/RFC2616, June 1999,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2616>.
[RFC7232] Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, Ed., "Hypertext Transfer
Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests", RFC 7232,
DOI 10.17487/RFC7232, June 2014,
<https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7232>.
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Appendix A. Changes from RFC 7232
All content has been moved to [Semantics].
Acknowledgments
See Appendix "Acknowledgments" of [Semantics].
Authors' Addresses
Roy T. Fielding (editor)
Adobe
345 Park Ave
San Jose, CA 95110
USA
EMail: fielding@gbiv.com
URI: https://roy.gbiv.com/
Mark Nottingham (editor)
Fastly
EMail: mnot@mnot.net
URI: https://www.mnot.net/
Julian F. Reschke (editor)
greenbytes GmbH
Hafenweg 16
Muenster, NW 48155
Germany
EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
URI: https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/
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