Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-07

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.

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 http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/.

The current issues list is at http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/trac/query?component=method-registrations 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 Appendix B.7.

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Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Security Considerations
• 3. IANA Considerations
• 4. References
• Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents
• Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)
• Appendix B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00
• Appendix B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01
• Appendix B.3. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02
• Appendix B.4. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03
• Appendix B.5. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04
• Appendix B.6. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05
• Appendix B.7. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06
• Author's Address

1. Introduction

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.

2. Security Considerations

There are no security considerations related to the registration itself.

3. IANA Considerations

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]).

4. References

Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents

Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)

Appendix B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00

Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323).

Appendix B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01

Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.

Appendix B.3. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02

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.

Appendix B.4. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03

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.

Appendix B.5. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04

Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.

Appendix B.6. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05

Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.

Appendix B.7. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06

Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.

Author's Address