HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests
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HTTPbis Working Group R. Fielding, Ed.
Internet-Draft Adobe
Obsoletes: 2616 (if approved) Y. Lafon, Ed.
Intended status: Standards Track W3C
Expires: September 13, 2012 J. Reschke, Ed.
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March 12, 2012
HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests
draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-19
Abstract
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information
systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global
information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 4 of the
seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as
"HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616.
Part 4 defines request header fields for indicating conditional
requests and the rules for constructing responses to those requests.
Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)
Discussion of this draft should take place on the HTTPBIS working
group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
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The current issues list is at
<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/report/3> and related
documents (including fancy diffs) can be found at
<http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/>.
The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix C.20.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Conformance and Error Handling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Syntax Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Validators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.1. Weak versus Strong . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2.2. Last-Modified . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2.1. Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.2.2. Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2.3. ETag . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.3.1. Generation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.3.2. Comparison . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3.3. Example: Entity-tags varying on Content-Negotiated
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