Re: Content Disposition

On 3 Jun 2008, at 17:31, Julian Reschke wrote:

> 1) What's the standards status of Content-Disposition?
>
> - it's defined in RFC2616, but it says: "Content-Disposition is not  
> part of the HTTP standard, but since it is widely implemented, we  
> are documenting its use and risks for implementors." (in the  
> Security Considerations)
>
> - the initial registry (RFC4229) says "standard" (<http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4229#section-2.1.22 
> >)
>
> - however the actual registry (<http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/perm-headers.html 
> >) doesn't mention a status
>
> -> I'm tempted to leave it as defined in registry, so with no entry  
> for the standard status

Content-Disposition is defined in RFC 2183 ( http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2183.txt 
  ), or am I missing something subtle?


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