- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 15:21:07 +0200
- To: HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
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
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