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2 HTTPbis Working Group J. Reschke
3 Internet-Draft greenbytes
4 Intended status: Informational January 4, 2012
5 Expires: July 7, 2012
7 Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
8 draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-07
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.7.
29 Status of This Memo
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42 material or to cite them other than as "work in progress."
44 This Internet-Draft will expire on July 7, 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
76 B.7. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06 . . . . . 6
78 1. Introduction
80 This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
81 methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs before the
82 IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.
84 2. Security Considerations
86 There are no security considerations related to the registration
87 itself.
89 3. IANA Considerations
91 Appendix A provides initial registrations of HTTP method names for
92 the IANA HTTP Method registry at
93 (see Section 2.2 of
94 [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics]).
96 4. Normative References
98 [RFC2068] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul,
99 J., Nielsen, H., and T. Berners-
100 Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol
101 -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2068,
102 January 1997.
104 [RFC3253] Clemm, G., Amsden, J., Ellison,
105 T., Kaler, C., and J. Whitehead,
106 "Versioning Extensions to WebDAV
107 (Web Distributed Authoring and
108 Versioning)", RFC 3253,
109 March 2002.
111 [RFC3648] Whitehead, J. and J. Reschke, Ed.,
112 "Web Distributed Authoring and
113 Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered
114 Collections Protocol", RFC 3648,
115 December 2003.
117 [RFC3744] Clemm, G., Reschke, J., Sedlar,
118 E., and J. Whitehead, "Web
119 Distributed Authoring and
120 Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control
121 Protocol", RFC 3744, May 2004.
123 [RFC4437] Whitehead, J., Clemm, G., and J.
124 Reschke, Ed., "Web Distributed
125 Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
126 Redirect Reference Resources",
127 RFC 4437, March 2006.
129 [RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and
130 L. Dusseault, "Calendaring
131 Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)",
132 RFC 4791, March 2007.
134 [RFC4918] Dusseault, L., Ed., "HTTP
135 Extensions for Web Distributed
136 Authoring and Versioning
137 (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007.
139 [RFC5323] Reschke, J., Ed., Reddy, S.,
140 Davis, J., and A. Babich, "Web
141 Distributed Authoring and
142 Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH",
143 RFC 5323, November 2008.
145 [RFC5789] Dusseault, L. and J. Snell, "PATCH
146 Method for HTTP", RFC 5789,
147 March 2010.
149 [RFC5842] Clemm, G., Crawford, J., Reschke,
150 J., Ed., and J. Whitehead,
151 "Binding Extensions to Web
152 Distributed Authoring and
153 Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 5842,
154 April 2010.
156 [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] Fielding, R., Ed., Gettys, J.,
157 Mogul, J., Frystyk, H., Masinter,
158 L., Leach, P., Berners-Lee, T.,
159 Lafon, Y., Ed., and J. Reschke,
160 Ed., "HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message
161 Semantics",
162 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-18
163 (work in progress), January 2012.
165 Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents
167 +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+
168 | Method Name | Safe | Reference |
169 +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+
170 | ACL | no | [RFC3744], Section 8.1 |
171 | BASELINE-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 12.6 |
172 | BIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 4 |
173 | CHECKIN | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.4 and [RFC3253], |
174 | | | Section 9.4 |
175 | CHECKOUT | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.3 and [RFC3253], |
176 | | | Section 8.8 |
177 | COPY | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.8 |
178 | LABEL | no | [RFC3253], Section 8.2 |
179 | LINK | no | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.2 |
180 | LOCK | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.10 |
181 | MERGE | no | [RFC3253], Section 11.2 |
182 | MKACTIVITY | no | [RFC3253], Section 13.5 |
183 | MKCALENDAR | no | [RFC4791], Section 5.3.1 |
184 | MKCOL | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.3 |
185 | MKREDIRECTREF | no | [RFC4437], Section 6 |
186 | MKWORKSPACE | no | [RFC3253], Section 6.3 |
187 | MOVE | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.9 |
188 | ORDERPATCH | no | [RFC3648], Section 7 |
189 | PATCH | no | [RFC5789], Section 2 |
190 | PROPFIND | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.1 |
191 | PROPPATCH | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.2 |
192 | REBIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 6 |
193 | REPORT | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.6 |
194 | SEARCH | yes | [RFC5323], Section 2 |
195 | UNBIND | no | [RFC5842], Section 5 |
196 | UNCHECKOUT | no | [RFC3253], Section 4.5 |
197 | UNLINK | no | [RFC2068], Section 19.6.1.3 |
198 | UNLOCK | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.11 |
199 | UPDATE | no | [RFC3253], Section 7.1 |
200 | UPDATEREDIRECTREF | no | [RFC4437], Section 7 |
201 | VERSION-CONTROL | no | [RFC3253], Section 3.5 |
202 +-------------------+------+----------------------------------------+
204 Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication)
206 B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00
208 Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323).
210 B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01
212 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
214 B.3. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02
216 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. PATCH is now
217 defined in draft-dusseault-http-patch. BIND, UNBIND and REBIND are
218 defined in draft-ietf-webdav-bind. Drop the "updates
219 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics" clause.
221 B.4. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03
223 draft-dusseault-http-patch was published as RFC 5789.
224 draft-ietf-webdav-bind was published as RFC 5842. Fix typo in
225 MKACTIVITY entry. Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
226 Fix change log section titles.
228 B.5. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04
230 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
232 B.6. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05
234 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
236 B.7. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06
238 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference.
240 Author's Address
242 Julian F. Reschke
243 greenbytes GmbH
244 Hafenweg 16
245 Muenster, NW 48155
246 Germany
248 EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
249 URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/