- From: Jim Whitehead <ejw@ics.uci.edu>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 15:15:14 -0800
- To: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
A PEP Internet-Draft is now available. This is of relevance to the WebDAV group because it is hoped that PEP can be used by clients to determine if a server supports DAV functionality, and also perhaps as a mechanism for discovering method interfaces. It would be very helpful if someone could post a summary of this draft, and their views on its applicability to the WebDAV draft protocol specification. - Jim >Mime-Version: 1.0 >To: IETF-Announce: ; >cc: http-wg@cuckoo.hpl.hp.com >Sender:ietf-announce-request@ietf.org >From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org >Reply-to: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org >Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt >Date: Tue, 04 Feb 1997 09:42:22 -0500 >X-Orig-Sender: cclark@ietf.org > > A Revised Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. This draft is a work item of the HyperText Transfer Protocol > Working Group of the IETF. > > Title : PEP: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP > Author(s) : D. Connolly > Filename : draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt > Pages : 14 > Date : 01/03/1997 > >HTTP is an extensible protocol. PEP is an extension mechanism >designed to address the tension between private agreement and >public specification and to accomodate extension of HTTP clients >and servers by software components. > >The mechanism is to associate each extension with a URL, and >use a few new header fields to carry the extension identifier and >related information from HTTP clients, thru proxies and intermediaries, >to servers, and back again. > > >Internet-Drafts are available by anonymous FTP. Login with the username >"anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in, >type "cd internet-drafts" and then > "get draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt". >A URL for the Internet-Draft is: >ftp://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt > >Internet-Drafts directories are located at: > > o Africa: ftp.is.co.za > > o Europe: ftp.nordu.net > ftp.nis.garr.it > > o Pacific Rim: munnari.oz.au > > o US East Coast: ds.internic.net > > o US West Coast: ftp.isi.edu > >Internet-Drafts are also available by mail. > >Send a message to: mailserv@ds.internic.net. In the body type: > "FILE /internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt". > >NOTE: The mail server at ds.internic.net can return the document in > MIME-encoded form by using the "mpack" utility. To use this > feature, insert the command "ENCODING mime" before the "FILE" > command. To decode the response(s), you will need "munpack" or > a MIME-compliant mail reader. Different MIME-compliant mail readers > exhibit different behavior, especially when dealing with > "multipart" MIME messages (i.e., documents which have been split > up into multiple messages), so check your local documentation on > how to manipulate these messages. > > > >Below is the data which will enable a MIME compliant mail reader >implementation to automatically retrieve the ASCII version >of the Internet-Draft. > >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-ID: <19970203101110.I-D@ietf.org> > >[This attachment must be fetched by mail. >Open the stationery below and send the resulting >message to get the attachment.] >Attachment converted: Galileo:Get I-D ACTION-draft-ietf-htt 4 (EuSn/CSOm) >(0001044B) >Content-Type: Message/External-body; > name="draft-ietf-http-pep-01.txt"; > site="ds.internic.net"; > access-type="anon-ftp"; > directory="internet-drafts" > >[This attachment must be fetched by ftp. > Open the document below to ask your ftp client to fetch it.] >Attachment converted: Galileo:Get draft-ietf-http-pep-01.tx 1 (AURL/Arch) >(0001044D) >Content-Type: text/plain >Content-ID: <19970203101110.I-D@ietf.org> >
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