HTTP Working Group                                      R. Fielding, Ed.
Internet-Draft                                                     Adobe
Intended status: Standards Track                      M. Nottingham, Ed.
Expires: December 2, 2018                                         Fastly
                                                         J. Reschke, Ed.
                                                              greenbytes
                                                            May 31, 2018


                          HTTP Range Requests
                      draft-ietf-httpbis-range-01

Abstract

   The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-
   level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information
   systems.  This document formerly defined range requests and the rules
   for constructing and combining responses to those requests, which has
   since been moved to the core HTTP Semantics document.

Editorial Note

   This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.

   Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTP working group
   mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
   <https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/>.

   Working Group information can be found at <https://httpwg.org/>;
   source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
   <https://github.com/httpwg/http-core>.

   The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix A.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   2
   2.  References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.1.  Normative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
     2.2.  Informative References  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   3
   Appendix A.  Changes from RFC 7233  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4
   Authors' Addresses  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   4

1.  Introduction

   Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) clients often encounter
   interrupted data transfers as a result of canceled requests or
   dropped connections.  This document defined HTTP/1.1 range requests,
   partial responses, and the multipart/byteranges media type.

   The entire content of this document (previously in [RFC2616] and
   [RFC7233]) has been moved to [Semantics].



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2.  References

2.1.  Normative References

   [Semantics]
              Fielding, R., Ed., Nottingham, M., Ed., and J. Reschke,
              Ed., "HTTP Semantics", draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-01
              (work in progress), May 2018.

2.2.  Informative References

   [RFC2616]  Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H.,
              Masinter, L., Leach, P., and T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext
              Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2616, June 1999,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2616>.

   [RFC7233]  Fielding, R., Ed., Lafon, Y., Ed., and J. Reschke, Ed.,
              "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP): Range Requests",
              RFC 7233, DOI 10.17487/RFC7233, June 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7233>.






























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Appendix A.  Changes from RFC 7233

   All content has been moved to [Semantics].

Acknowledgments

   See Appendix "Acknowledgments" of [Semantics].

Authors' Addresses

   Roy T. Fielding (editor)
   Adobe
   345 Park Ave
   San Jose, CA  95110
   USA

   EMail: fielding@gbiv.com
   URI:   https://roy.gbiv.com/


   Mark Nottingham (editor)
   Fastly

   EMail: mnot@mnot.net
   URI:   https://www.mnot.net/


   Julian F. Reschke (editor)
   greenbytes GmbH
   Hafenweg 16
   Muenster, NW  48155
   Germany

   EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
   URI:   https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/
















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