- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 11:48:15 -0800
- To: Meral Shirazipour <meral.shirazipour@ericsson.com>
- Cc: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>, General Area Review Team <gen-art@ietf.org>
On Dec 19, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2013-12-09 23:42, Meral Shirazipour wrote: >> ... >>>> -[Page 17], "non-interim" , not clear how it can be determines as non- >>>> interim (no other message in between? or under a certain peruiod of >>>> time?) >> >> "non-interim" = ? > > Non-1xx. > > See <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-25.html#rfc.section.6.2> > >>>> Also the term "authoritative" is introduced and should be defined in this >>>> context. >>>> >>>> " >>>> If the server responds to that request with a non-interim >>>> HTTP response message, as described in Section 6 of [Part2], then >>>> that response is considered an authoritative answer to the client's >>>> request. >>>> " >>> >>> As defined in Part2, Section 6; that is, a status code other that 1xx. >> >> "authoritative" means coming from origin server? > > No, it means "final" as opposed to "interim". In the quote from p1, "authoritative" is used according to its common English definition: https://www.google.com/search?q=define+authoritative and doesn't imply that the server is the origin server (it could be a CDN), though it supposedly operates on behalf of the origin. ....Roy
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