Re: [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7231 (4224)

On 2015-01-10 03:35, RFC Errata System wrote:
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7231,
> "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content".
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=7231&eid=4224
>
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> Type: Editorial
> Reported by: Bjoern Hoehrmann <bjoern@hoehrmann.de>
>
> Section: 4.1 and A. D
>
> Original Text
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>       method = token
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> Corrected Text
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>       method = <method, see [RFC7230], Section 3.1.1>
>
>
> Notes
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> The HTTP/1.1 RFCs define rules imported across documents using prose rules for all rules except this one. This is an error because RFC7231 does not mean to re-define the production rule.
> ...

The text is as intended; Appendix C has:

> The rules below are defined in [RFC7230]:
>
>   BWS           = <BWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
>   OWS           = <OWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
>   RWS           = <RWS, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.3>
>   URI-reference = <URI-reference, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
>   absolute-URI  = <absolute-URI, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
>   comment       = <comment, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>
>   field-name    = <comment, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2>
>   partial-URI   = <partial-URI, see [RFC7230], Section 2.7>
>   quoted-string = <quoted-string, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>
>   token         = <token, see [RFC7230], Section 3.2.6>

Best regards, Julian

Received on Saturday, 10 January 2015 09:15:06 UTC