HTTPbis Working Group | J. F. Reschke |
Internet-Draft | greenbytes |
Intended status: Informational | July 08, 2011 |
Expires: January 09, 2012 |
Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06
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.
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The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix Appendix B.6.
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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.
There are no security considerations related to the registration itself.
Appendix 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 2.2 of [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics]).
Method Name | Safe | Reference |
---|---|---|
ACL | no | [RFC3744], Section 8.1 |
BASELINE-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 12.6 |
BIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 4 |
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 |
MKACTIVITY | 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 | [RFC5789], Section 2 |
PROPFIND | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.1 |
PROPPATCH | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.2 |
REBIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 6 |
REPORT | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.6 |
SEARCH | yes | [RFC5323], Section 2 |
UNBIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 5 |
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 |
VERSION-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 3.5 |
Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323).
Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. PATCH is now defined in draft-dusseault-http-patch. BIND, UNBIND and REBIND are defined in draft-ietf-webdav-bind. Drop the "updates draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics" clause.
draft-dusseault-http-patch was published as RFC 5789. draft-ietf-webdav-bind was published as RFC 5842. Fix typo in MKACTIVITY entry. Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. Fix change log section titles.
Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.