Network Working Group J. Reschke Internet-Draft greenbytes Updates: August 29, 2008 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-04 (if approved) Intended status: Informational Expires: March 2, 2009 Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00 Status of this Memo By submitting this Internet-Draft, each author represents that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which he or she is aware have been or will be disclosed, and any of which he or she becomes aware will be disclosed, in accordance with Section 6 of 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 March 2, 2009. Abstract 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. Reschke Expires March 2, 2009 [Page 1] Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations August 2008 Table of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 4. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Author's Address . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Intellectual Property and Copyright Statements . . . . . . . . . . 6 Reschke Expires March 2, 2009 [Page 2] Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations August 2008 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 (see Section 3.1 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 March 2, 2009 [Page 3] Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations August 2008 [RFC4918] Dusseault, L., Ed., "HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007. [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-04 (work in progress), August 2008. 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 | | 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 | +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+ Reschke Expires March 2, 2009 [Page 4] Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations August 2008 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 March 2, 2009 [Page 5] Internet-Draft HTTP Method Registrations August 2008 Full Copyright Statement Copyright (C) The IETF Trust (2008). This document is subject to the rights, licenses and restrictions contained in BCP 78, and except as set forth therein, the authors retain all their rights. This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY, THE IETF TRUST AND THE INTERNET ENGINEERING TASK FORCE DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY WARRANTY THAT THE USE OF THE INFORMATION HEREIN WILL NOT INFRINGE ANY RIGHTS OR ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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