Re: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7233 (4664)

On 2016-04-13 10:41, 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=4664
>
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Amichai Rothman <amichai2@amichais.net>
>
> Section: 4.4
>
> Original Text
> -------------
> The 416 (Range Not Satisfiable) status code indicates that none of
> the ranges in the request's Range header field (Section 3.1) overlap
> the current extent of the selected resource or that the set of ranges
> requested has been rejected due to invalid ranges or an excessive
> request of small or overlapping ranges.
>
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> The 416 (Range Not Satisfiable) status code indicates that none of
> the ranges in the request's Range header field (Section 3.1) overlap
> the current extent of the selected representation or that the set of
> ranges requested has been rejected due to invalid ranges or an excessive
> request of small or overlapping ranges.
> ...

I agree that "representation" would have been the correct term here.

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 13 April 2016 09:40:53 UTC