- From: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>
- Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:31:22 +1100
- To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
+1 On 28/10/2010, at 12:21 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 23.07.2010 14:53, Julian Reschke wrote: >> Hi, >> >> just raised: >> >> Part 2, 9.1 says: >> >> "A proxy MUST NOT modify the Allow header field even if it does not >> understand all the methods specified, since the user agent might have >> other means of communicating with the origin server." -- >> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-latest.html#rfc.section.9.1> >> >> >> That is *very* misleading as it implies that it's somehow ok for a proxy >> not to implement a method it doesn't know about. However, the >> transmission semantics for methods are generic (see Part 1, except for a >> few well-defined exceptions). >> ... > > Proposal: > > "A proxy MUST NOT modify the Allow header field -- it doesn't need to understand all the methods specified in order to handle them according to the generic message handling rules." > > Best regards, Julian > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/
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