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Reschke 3 Internet-Draft greenbytes 4 Intended status: Informational August 6, 2013 5 Expires: February 7, 2014 7 Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations 8 draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-12 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 takes place on the HTTPBIS working group 19 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.12. 29 Status of This Memo 31 This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the 32 provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79. 34 Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering 35 Task Force (IETF). 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Code Components extracted from this document must 57 include Simplified BSD License text as described in Section 4.e of 58 the Trust Legal Provisions and are provided without warranty as 59 described in the Simplified BSD License. 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 . . . . . 6 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 77 B.8. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-07 . . . . . 6 78 B.9. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-08 . . . . . 6 79 B.10. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-09 . . . . . 6 80 B.11. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-10 . . . . . 7 81 B.12. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-11 . . . . . 7 83 1. Introduction 85 This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 86 methods which have been defined in standards-track RFCs other than 87 [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] before the IANA HTTP Method 88 Registry was established. 90 2. Security Considerations 92 There are no security considerations related to the registration 93 itself. 95 3. IANA Considerations 97 Appendix A provides initial registrations of HTTP method names for 98 the IANA HTTP Method registry at 99 (see Section 8.1 of 100 [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics]). 102 4. Normative References 104 [RFC2068] Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, 105 J., Nielsen, H., and T. Berners- 106 Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol 107 -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2068, 108 January 1997. 110 [RFC3253] Clemm, G., Amsden, J., Ellison, 111 T., Kaler, C., and J. Whitehead, 112 "Versioning Extensions to WebDAV 113 (Web Distributed Authoring and 114 Versioning)", RFC 3253, 115 March 2002. 117 [RFC3648] Whitehead, J. and J. Reschke, Ed., 118 "Web Distributed Authoring and 119 Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered 120 Collections Protocol", RFC 3648, 121 December 2003. 123 [RFC3744] Clemm, G., Reschke, J., Sedlar, 124 E., and J. Whitehead, "Web 125 Distributed Authoring and 126 Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control 127 Protocol", RFC 3744, May 2004. 129 [RFC4437] Whitehead, J., Clemm, G., and J. 130 Reschke, Ed., "Web Distributed 131 Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) 132 Redirect Reference Resources", 133 RFC 4437, March 2006. 135 [RFC4791] Daboo, C., Desruisseaux, B., and 136 L. Dusseault, "Calendaring 137 Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)", 138 RFC 4791, March 2007. 140 [RFC4918] Dusseault, L., Ed., "HTTP 141 Extensions for Web Distributed 142 Authoring and Versioning 143 (WebDAV)", RFC 4918, June 2007. 145 [RFC5323] Reschke, J., Ed., Reddy, S., 146 Davis, J., and A. Babich, "Web 147 Distributed Authoring and 148 Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH", 149 RFC 5323, November 2008. 151 [RFC5789] Dusseault, L. and J. Snell, "PATCH 152 Method for HTTP", RFC 5789, 153 March 2010. 155 [RFC5842] Clemm, G., Crawford, J., Reschke, 156 J., Ed., and J. Whitehead, 157 "Binding Extensions to Web 158 Distributed Authoring and 159 Versioning (WebDAV)", RFC 5842, 160 April 2010. 162 [draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics] Fielding, R., Ed. and J. Reschke, 163 Ed., "Hypertext Transfer Protocol 164 (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and 165 Content", 166 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-23 167 (work in progress), July 2013. 169 Appendix A. Initial Registry Contents 171 +-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+ 172 | Method Name | Safe | Idempotent | Reference | 173 +-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+ 174 | ACL | no | yes | [RFC3744], Section 8.1 | 175 | BASELINE-CONTROL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 12.6 | 176 | BIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 4 | 177 | CHECKIN | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.4 | 178 | | | | and [RFC3253], Section | 179 | | | | 9.4 | 180 | CHECKOUT | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.3 | 181 | | | | and [RFC3253], Section | 182 | | | | 8.8 | 183 | COPY | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.8 | 184 | LABEL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 8.2 | 185 | LINK | no | yes | [RFC2068], Section | 186 | | | | 19.6.1.2 | 187 | LOCK | no | no | [RFC4918], Section 9.10 | 188 | MERGE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 11.2 | 189 | MKACTIVITY | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 13.5 | 190 | MKCALENDAR | no | yes | [RFC4791], Section 5.3.1 | 191 | MKCOL | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.3 | 192 | MKREDIRECTREF | no | yes | [RFC4437], Section 6 | 193 | MKWORKSPACE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 6.3 | 194 | MOVE | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.9 | 195 | ORDERPATCH | no | yes | [RFC3648], Section 7 | 196 | PATCH | no | no | [RFC5789], Section 2 | 197 | PROPFIND | yes | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.1 | 198 | PROPPATCH | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.2 | 199 | REBIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 6 | 200 | REPORT | yes | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.6 | 201 | SEARCH | yes | yes | [RFC5323], Section 2 | 202 | UNBIND | no | yes | [RFC5842], Section 5 | 203 | UNCHECKOUT | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 4.5 | 204 | UNLINK | no | yes | [RFC2068], Section | 205 | | | | 19.6.1.3 | 206 | UNLOCK | no | yes | [RFC4918], Section 9.11 | 207 | UPDATE | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 7.1 | 208 | UPDATEREDIRECTREF | no | yes | [RFC4437], Section 7 | 209 | VERSION-CONTROL | no | yes | [RFC3253], Section 3.5 | 210 +-------------------+------+------------+---------------------------+ 212 Appendix B. Change Log (to be removed by RFC Editor before publication) 213 B.1. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-00 215 Added SEARCH method (RFC 5323). 217 B.2. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-01 219 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 221 B.3. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-02 223 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. PATCH is now 224 defined in draft-dusseault-http-patch. BIND, UNBIND and REBIND are 225 defined in draft-ietf-webdav-bind. Drop the "updates 226 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics" clause. 228 B.4. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-03 230 draft-dusseault-http-patch was published as RFC 5789. 231 draft-ietf-webdav-bind was published as RFC 5842. Fix typo in 232 MKACTIVITY entry. Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 233 Fix change log section titles. 235 B.5. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-04 237 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 239 B.6. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-05 241 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 243 B.7. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-06 245 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 247 B.8. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-07 249 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 251 B.9. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-08 253 Added itempotency information. Update 254 draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 256 B.10. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-09 258 Closed issues: 260 o : "what is the 261 idempotency of LINK and UNLINK?" 263 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 265 B.11. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-10 267 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 269 B.12. Since draft-ietf-httpbis-method-registrations-11 271 Update draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics reference. 273 Author's Address 275 Julian F. Reschke 276 greenbytes GmbH 277 Hafenweg 16 278 Muenster, NW 48155 279 Germany 281 EMail: julian.reschke@greenbytes.de 282 URI: http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/