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Re: Issue 10, was: User interface requirements for redirecting to ?unsafe methods

From: Adam Barth <w3c@adambarth.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2010 08:02:48 -0800
Message-ID: <7789133a1002120802p10369e0co77420736aad05767@mail.gmail.com>
To: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
Cc: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:11 AM, Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> wrote:
> Julian Reschke wrote:
>> Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
>>>
>>> RFC2616 has some MUST-level user interface requirements relating
>>> redirecting to unsafe methods:
>>>
>>>
>>> <http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-latest.html#status.3xx>
>>> "The action required may be carried out by the user agent without
>>> interaction with the user if and only if the method used in the second
>>> request is GET or HEAD."
>>
>> That's a bug. It should talk about safe methods. Re-opening a very old
>> ticket: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/ticket/10#comment:5>.
>> ...
>
> Fixed with <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/759> -- the
> introduction now says:
>
> "The action required MAY be carried out by the user agent without
> interaction with the user if and only if the method used in the second
> request is is known to be "safe", as defined in Section 7.1.1."

I think you have "is" written twice there.

Adam
Received on Friday, 12 February 2010 16:03:59 UTC

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