- From: Dave Kristol <dmk@bell-labs.com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 09:38:44 -0400
- To: Jim Gettys <jg@pa.dec.com>
- Cc: http-wg@hplb.hpl.hp.com, Paul Bennett <p.bennett@bt-sys.bt.co.uk>
Some comments on Paul Bennet's comments:
[It's reassuring to come upon someone else who can be as nit-picky as I
am. :-)]
> * Section 5.1.2 "Request-URI", p33, second para talks about
> replacing 'a null abs_path with "*"' - surely it's replaced
> with a "/".
I was about to say, vigorously, "no", but now I think I'm just confused
about just what the point is of that paragraph. The paragraph says:
Request-URI = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path
[...]
In requests that they forward, transparent proxies MUST NOT rewrite the
"abs_path" part of a Request-URI in any way except as noted above to
replace a null abs_path with "*", no matter what the proxy does in its
internal implementation.
If "abs_path" in the paragraph refers to the non-terminal in the
Request-URI production, then I have to ask, how can it be null in the
first place? When is Request-URI null? OTOH, if we're talking about
the "abs_path" that's part of the "absoluteURI", then I might be
inclined to agree with Paul.
> * Sections 9.3 "GET", 9.4 "HEAD" and 9.7 "DELETE" don't explicitly
> rule out the presence of an entity-body, as section 9.8 "TRACE"
> does.
That's because we've discussed the possibility that, some time in the
future, it might make sense to include an entity-body for them.
Dave Kristol
Received on Thursday, 13 August 1998 06:41:05 UTC