Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7233 (4358)

Unless I'm missing something this sounds like a technical change to me.

Best regards, Julian

On 2015-05-07 20:43, RFC Errata System wrote:
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7233,
> "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests".
>
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7233&eid=4358
>
> --------------------------------------
> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Tim <elatllat@gmail.com>
>
> Section: 4
>
> Original Text
> -------------
> The 206 (Partial Content) status code indicates that the server is
> successfully fulfilling a range request for the target resource by
> transferring one or more parts of the selected representation that
> correspond to the satisfiable ranges found in the request's Range
> header field (Section 3.1).
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> The 206 (Partial Content) status code indicates that the server is
> successfully fulfilling a range request for the target resource by
> transferring one or more parts of the selected representation that
> correspond to the satisfiable ranges found in the request's Range
> header field (Section 3.1). A response may chose to satisfy only
> part of a requested range.
>
>
> Notes
> -----
> Firefox and Chrome already behave as if the "Corrected Text"
> statement is true.
>
> It may be desirable if for example a user returns to a
> html5 video with auto play, pauses the video and is only
> interested in responding to a comment on the page. In this example
> it would be unnecessarily costly to transfer the whole 128GB when
> the user only consumes a few MB.
>
> Alternative: maybe it should only be true if last-byte-pos is
> absent.
>
> Instructions:
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>
> --------------------------------------
> RFC7233 (draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-26)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests
> Publication Date    : June 2014
> Author(s)           : R. Fielding, Ed., Y. Lafon, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed.
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis
> Area                : Applications
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG
>


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