HTTPbis Working Group J. Reschke Internet-Draft greenbytes Updates: May 23, 2009 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-06 (if approved) Intended status: Informational Expires: November 24, 2009 Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02 Status of this Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted to IETF in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. This Internet-Draft will expire on November 24, 2009. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents in effect on the date of publication of this document (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info). Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Reschke Expires November 24, 2009 [Page 1]
Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations May 2009 Abstract This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established. Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-method-registrations-00 . . . . 5 B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-method-registrations-01 . . . . 5 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Reschke Expires November 24, 2009 [Page 2]
Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations May 2009 1. Introduction This document registers those Hypertext Transfer ProtocolHypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established. 2. Security Considerations There are no security considerations related to the registration itself. 3. IANA Considerations Appendix A provides initial registrations of HTTP method names for the IANA HTTP Method registry at <http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods> (see Section 2.1 of [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics]). 4. Normative References [RFC2068] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Nielsen, H., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2068, January 1997. [RFC3253] Clemm, G., Amsden, J., Ellison, T., Kaler, C., and J. Whitehead, "Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)", RFC 3253, March 2002. [RFC3648] Whitehead, J. and J. Reschke, Ed., "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered Collections Protocol", RFC 3648, December 2003. [RFC3744] Clemm, G., Reschke, J., Sedlar, E., and J. Whitehead, "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control Protocol", RFC 3744, May 2004. [RFC4437] Whitehead, J., Clemm, G., and J. Reschke, Ed., "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Redirect Reference Resources", RFC 4437, March 2006. [RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and L. Dusseault, "Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)", RFC 4791, March 2007. Reschke Expires November 24, 2009 [Page 3]
Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations May 2009 [RFC4918] Dusseault, L., Ed., "HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007. [RFC5323] Reschke, J., Ed., Reddy, S., Davis, J., and A. Babich, "Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH", RFC 5323, November 2008. [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] Fielding, R., Ed., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., Masinter, L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T., Lafon, Y., Ed., and J. Reschke, Ed., "HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics", draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-06 (work in progress), March 2009. Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+ | Method Name | Safe | Reference | +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+ | ACL | no | [RFC3744], Section 8.1 | | BASELINE-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 12.6 | | CHECKIN | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.4 and [RFC3253], | | | | Section 9.4 | | CHECKOUT | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.3 and [RFC3253], | | | | Section 8.8 | | COPY | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.8 | | LABEL | no | [RFC3253], Section 8.2 | | LINK | no | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.2 | | LOCK | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.10 | | MERGE | no | [RFC3253], Section 11.2 | | MKAKTIVITY | no | [RFC3253], Section 13.5 | | MKCALENDAR | no | [RFC4791], Section 5.3.1 | | MKCOL | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.3 | | MKREDIRECTREF | no | [RFC4437], Section 6 | | MKWORKSPACE | no | [RFC3253], Section 6.3 | | MOVE | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.9 | | ORDERPATCH | no | [RFC3648], Section 7 | | PATCH | no | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.1 | | PROPFIND | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.1 | | PROPPATCH | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.2 | | REPORT | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.6 | | SEARCH | yes | [RFC5323], Section 2 | | UNCHECKOUT | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.5 | | UNLINK | no | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.3 | | UNLOCK | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.11 | | UPDATE | no | [RFC3253], Section 7.1 | | UPDATEREDIRECTREF | no | [RFC4437], Section 7 | Reschke Expires November 24, 2009 [Page 4]
Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations May 2009 | VERSION-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 3.5 | +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+ Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-method-registrations-00 Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323). B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-method-registrations-01 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. Author's Address Julian F. Reschke greenbytes GmbH Hafenweg 16 Muenster, NW 48155 Germany Email: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/ Reschke Expires November 24, 2009 [Page 5]
