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This draft is a work item of the HyperText Transfer Protocol Working Group of the IETF.
Title : Specification of HTTP/1.1 OPTIONS messages
Author(s) : J Mogul and S Lawrence and J Cohen
Filename : draft-ietf-http-options-00.txt
Pages : 13
Date : 30-Jul-97
RFC2068 defined a new OPTIONS method for HTTP/1.1. The
purpose of OPTIONS is to allow a client to determine the
options and/or requirements associated with a resource, or
the capabilities of a server, without implying a resource
action or initiating a resource retrieval. However,
RFC2068 did not defined a specific syntax for using OPTIONS
to make such a determination. This proposal clarifies the
original specification of OPTIONS, adds several new HTTP
message headers to provide syntactic support for OPTIONS,
and establishes new IANA registries to avoid namespace
conflicts.
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