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2 HTTPbis Working Group J. Reschke
3 Internet-Draft greenbytes
4 Intended status: Informational July 8, 2011
5 Expires: January 9, 2012
7 Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
8 draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06
10 Abstract
12 This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
13 methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the
14 IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.
16 Editorial Note (To be removed by RFC Editor)
18 Discussion of this draft should take place on the HTTPBIS working
19 group mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
20 .
22 The current issues list is at and related documents
24 (including fancy diffs) can be found at
25 .
27 The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix B.6.
29 Status of This Memo
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41 time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference
42 material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
44 This Internet-Draft will expire on January 9, 2012.
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61 Table of Contents
63 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
64 2. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
65 3. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
66 4. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
67 Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
68 Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before
69 publication) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
70 B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00 . . . . . 5
71 B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01 . . . . . 6
72 B.3. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02 . . . . . 6
73 B.4. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03 . . . . . 6
74 B.5. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04 . . . . . 6
75 B.6. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05 . . . . . 6
77 1. Introduction
79 This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
80 methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the
81 IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.
83 2. Security Considerations
85 There are no security considerations related to the registration
86 itself.
88 3. IANA Considerations
90 Appendix A provides initial registrations of HTTP method names for
91 the IANA HTTP Method registry at
92 (see Section 2.2 of
93 [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics]).
95 4. Normative References
97 [RFC2068] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul,
98 J., Nielsen, H., and T. Berners-
99 Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol
100 -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2068,
101 January 1997.
103 [RFC3253] Clemm, G., Amsden, J., Ellison,
104 T., Kaler, C., and J. Whitehead,
105 "Versioning Extensions to WebDAV
106 (Web Distributed Authoring and
107 Versioning)", RFC 3253,
108 March 2002.
110 [RFC3648] Whitehead, J. and J. Reschke, Ed.,
111 "Web Distributed Authoring and
112 Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered
113 Collections Protocol", RFC 3648,
114 December 2003.
116 [RFC3744] Clemm, G., Reschke, J., Sedlar,
117 E., and J. Whitehead, "Web
118 Distributed Authoring and
119 Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control
120 Protocol", RFC 3744, May 2004.
122 [RFC4437] Whitehead, J., Clemm, G., and J.
123 Reschke, Ed., "Web Distributed
124 Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
125 Redirect Reference Resources",
126 RFC 4437, March 2006.
128 [RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and
129 L. Dusseault, "Calendaring
130 Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)",
131 RFC 4791, March 2007.
133 [RFC4918] Dusseault, L., Ed., "HTTP
134 Extensions for Web Distributed
135 Authoring and Versioning
136 (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007.
138 [RFC5323] Reschke, J., Ed., Reddy, S.,
139 Davis, J., and A. Babich, "Web
140 Distributed Authoring and
141 Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH",
142 RFC 5323, November 2008.
144 [RFC5789] Dusseault, L. and J. Snell, "PATCH
145 Method for HTTP", RFC 5789,
146 March 2010.
148 [RFC5842] Clemm, G., Crawford, J., Reschke,
149 J., Ed., and J. Whitehead,
150 "Binding Extensions to Web
151 Distributed Authoring and
152 Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 5842,
153 April 2010.
155 [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] Fielding, R., Ed., Gettys, J.,
156 Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., Masinter,
157 L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T.,
158 Lafon, Y., Ed., and J. Reschke,
159 Ed., "HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message
160 Semantics",
161 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-14
162 (work in progress), April 2011.
164 Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents
166 +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+
167 | Method Name | Safe | Reference |
168 +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+
169 | ACL | no | [RFC3744], Section 8.1 |
170 | BASELINE-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 12.6 |
171 | BIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 4 |
172 | CHECKIN | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.4 and [RFC3253], |
173 | | | Section 9.4 |
174 | CHECKOUT | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.3 and [RFC3253], |
175 | | | Section 8.8 |
176 | COPY | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.8 |
177 | LABEL | no | [RFC3253], Section 8.2 |
178 | LINK | no | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.2 |
179 | LOCK | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.10 |
180 | MERGE | no | [RFC3253], Section 11.2 |
181 | MKACTIVITY | no | [RFC3253], Section 13.5 |
182 | MKCALENDAR | no | [RFC4791], Section 5.3.1 |
183 | MKCOL | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.3 |
184 | MKREDIRECTREF | no | [RFC4437], Section 6 |
185 | MKWORKSPACE | no | [RFC3253], Section 6.3 |
186 | MOVE | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.9 |
187 | ORDERPATCH | no | [RFC3648], Section 7 |
188 | PATCH | no | [RFC5789], Section 2 |
189 | PROPFIND | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.1 |
190 | PROPPATCH | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.2 |
191 | REBIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 6 |
192 | REPORT | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.6 |
193 | SEARCH | yes | [RFC5323], Section 2 |
194 | UNBIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 5 |
195 | UNCHECKOUT | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.5 |
196 | UNLINK | no | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.3 |
197 | UNLOCK | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.11 |
198 | UPDATE | no | [RFC3253], Section 7.1 |
199 | UPDATEREDIRECTREF | no | [RFC4437], Section 7 |
200 | VERSION-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 3.5 |
201 +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+
203 Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)
205 B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00
207 Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323).
209 B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01
211 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
213 B.3. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02
215 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. PATCH is now
216 defined in draft-dusseault-http-patch. BIND, UNBIND and REBIND are
217 defined in draft-ietf-webdav-bind. Drop the "updates
218 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics" clause.
220 B.4. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03
222 draft-dusseault-http-patch was published as RFC 5789.
223 draft-ietf-webdav-bind was published as RFC 5842. Fix typo in
224 MKACTIVITY entry. Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
225 Fix change log section titles.
227 B.5. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04
229 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
231 B.6. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05
233 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
235 Author's Address
237 Julian F. Reschke
238 greenbytes GmbH
239 Hafenweg 16
240 Muenster, NW 48155
241 Germany
243 EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
244 URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/