A JSON Encoding for HTTP Header Field Values
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Network Working Group J. Reschke
Internet-Draft greenbytes
Intended status: Standards Track June 25, 2017
Expires: December 27, 2017
A JSON Encoding for HTTP Header Field Values
draft-reschke-http-jfv-06
Abstract
This document establishes a convention for use of JSON-encoded field
values in HTTP header fields.
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The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix E.9.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2. Data Model and Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
3. Sender Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
4. Recipient Requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
5. Using this Format in Header Field Definitions . . . . . . . . 5
6. Deployment Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7. Interoperability Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.1. Encoding and Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.2. Numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
7.3. Object Constraints . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
8. Internationalization Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
9. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
10.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Appendix A. Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A.1. Content-Length . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A.2. Content-Disposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
A.3. WWW-Authenticate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
A.4. Accept-Encoding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Appendix B. Use of JSON Field Value Encoding in the Wild . . . . 13
B.1. W3C Reporting API Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
B.2. W3C Clear Site Data Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
B.3. W3C Feature Policy Specification . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Appendix C. Relation to HTTP 'Key' Header Field . . . . . . . . 14
Appendix D. Discussion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Appendix E. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before
publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
E.1. Since draft-reschke-http-jfv-00 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
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