Re: Conformance Test for HTTP 1.1

Sure, an open-source testbed could be easily extended to perform lots of
additional testing.

     -Carl


John Stracke <francis@ecal.com>@localhost.localdomain on 10/10/2000
09:35:32 AM

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Carl Kugler/Boulder/IBM wrote:

> MAYs are untestable, by definition  Since MAY is semantically equivalent
to
> MAY NOT, there is no way to test the hypothesis that an implementation
> conforms to the statement.
>
> SHOULDs are also untestable by definition, since an application is
allowed

But it can be useful to know which choices your server makes.  For example,
if
I
have an HTTP client application that requires Digest-Authentication, then,
as
far as I'm concerned, that MAY becomes a MUST.

(I make no comment on whether the IETF should get involved.  :-)

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