Re: #311 Add limitations to Range to reduce its use as a denial-of-service tool

On 2012-02-20 23:07, Yves Lafon wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Feb 2012, Julian Reschke wrote:
>
>> On 2012-02-20 18:33, Yves Lafon wrote:
>>> Based on the feedback received, here is the changeset:
>>>
>>> <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/changeset/1542>
>>
>> I think we need an addition to the "Changes from RFC 2616" section...
>
> I think not, for example, saying that a server may coalesce ranges is
> implied in 2616, see
> <<
> A response to a request for
> multiple ranges, whose result is a single range, MAY be sent as a
> multipart/byteranges media type with one part.
>>>
> so it is mostly clarifications, no real changes.

Ack.

So is the outcome of #311 that we actually did not make any normative 
changes?

In which case it would be good to close the bug with a short summary of 
what we changed, and what we did not. (In the issue tracker, not in the 
spec...)

Best regards, Julian

Received on Monday, 20 February 2012 22:26:55 UTC