Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Parameters

   Last Updated
           2013-01-15

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   Registries included below

     * HTTP Content-Coding Values
     * HTTP Transfer-Coding Values
     * HTTP Forwarded Parameters
     * HTTP Preferences

HTTP Content-Coding Values

   Registration Procedures

 First Come First Served with specification recommended

   Experts

 Primary: Roy Fielding; Secondary: Mark Nottingham

   Reference
           [RFC2616]

       Name                  Description                                                  Reference                                        Notes
   compress     UNIX "compress" program method         [RFC2616]                                                                        Section 3.5
   deflate      "zlib" format [RFC1950] with "deflate" [RFC2616]                                                                        Section 3.5
                compression
   exi          W3C Efficient XML Interchange          [J. Schneider and T. Kamiya, Eds. "Efficient XML Interchange (EXI) Format 1.0",
                                                       W3C Working Draft, 19 Sep 2008]
   gzip         Same as GNU zip [RFC1952]              [RFC2616]                                                                        Section 3.5
   identity     No transformation                      [RFC2616]                                                                        Section 3.5
   pack200-gzip Network Transfer Format for Java       [JSR 200: Network Transfer Format for Java][Kumar_Srinivasan][John_Rose]
                Archives

HTTP Transfer-Coding Values

   Registration Procedures

 First Come First Served with specification recommended

   Experts

 Primary: Roy Fielding; Secondary: Mark Nottingham

   Reference
           [RFC2616]

     Name                      Description                     Reference     Notes
   chunked  Transfer in a series of chunks                     [RFC2616] Section 3.6.1
   compress UNIX "compress" program method                     [RFC2616] Section 3.6
   deflate  "zlib" format [RFC1950] with "deflate" compression [RFC2616] Section 3.6
   gzip     Same as GNU zip [RFC1952]                          [RFC2616] Section 3.6
   identity (withdrawn in errata to [RFC2616])                 [RFC2616] Section 3.6

HTTP Forwarded Parameters

   Registration Procedures

 IETF Review

   Reference
           [RFC-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10]

   Name                       Description                                   Reference                  Notes
   by    IP-address of incoming interface of a proxy           [RFC-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10] Section 5.1
   for   IP-address of client making a request through a proxy [RFC-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10] Section 5.2
   host  Host header field of the incoming request             [RFC-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10] Section 5.3
   proto Application protocol used for incoming request        [RFC-ietf-appsawg-http-forwarded-10] Section 5.4

HTTP Preferences

   Registration Procedures

 Specification Required

   Reference
           [RFC-snell-http-prefer-18]

    Preference             Value                                      Description                                          Reference
   respond-async                            Indicates that the client prefers the server to respond         [RFC-snell-http-prefer-18], Section 4.1
                                            asynchronously to a request.
                                            When value is "minimal", indicates that the client prefers the
                 One of either "minimal" or server return a minimal response to a request. When value is
   return        "representation"           "representation", indicates that the client prefers the server  [RFC-snell-http-prefer-18], Section 4.2
                                            to include a representation of the current state of the
                                            resource in response to a request.
                                            Indicates an upper bound to the length of time the client
   wait                                     expects it will take the server to process the request once it  [RFC-snell-http-prefer-18], Section 4.3
                                            has been received.
                                            When value is "strict", indicates that the client wishes the
                 One of either "strict" or  server to apply strict validation and error handling to the
   handling      "lenient"                  processing of a request. When value is "lenient", indicates     [RFC-snell-http-prefer-18], Section 4.4
                                            that the client wishes the server to apply lenient validation
                                            and error handling to the processing of the request.

                                                                        People

           ID               Name                 Contact URI           Last Updated
   [Kumar_Srinivasan] Kumar Srinivasan mailto:Kumar.Srinivasan&Sun.COM 2006-10-27
   [John_Rose]        John Rose        mailto:John.Rose&Sun.COM        2006-10-27