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Changeset 2586 – Hypertext Transfer Protocol Wiki
Changeset 2586
26/01/14 08:14:42 (6 years ago)
(editorial) change encoding parameters MAY to can; see #531
content: "Expires July 29, 2014";
<meta name="dct.issued" scheme="ISO8601" content="2014-01-25">
<td class="right">January 25, 2014</td>
<td class="left">Expires: July 29, 2014</td>
<p>This Internet-Draft will expire on July 29, 2014.</p>
<p id="rfc.section.3.3.1.p.6">Unlike <a href="p2-semantics.html#header.content-encoding" class="smpl">Content-Encoding</a> (<a href="p2-semantics.html#content.codings" title="Content Codings">Section 3.1.2.1</a> of <a href="#Part2" id="rfc.xref.Part2.14"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content">[Part2]</cite></a>), Transfer-Encoding is a property of the message, not of the representation, and any recipient along the request/response
chain <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> decode the received transfer coding(s) or apply additional transfer coding(s) to the message body, assuming that corresponding
changes are made to the Transfer-Encoding field-value. Additional information about the encoding parameters can be provided
field-value. Additional information about the encoding parameters can be
<div id="rfc.figure.u.9"></div><pre class="text"> Content-Encoding: gzip
</pre><p id="rfc.section.3.1.2.2.p.5">If one or more encodings have been applied to a representation, the sender that applied the encodings <em class="bcp14">MUST</em> generate a Content-Encoding header field that lists the content codings in the order in which they were applied. Additional
information about the encoding parameters <em class="bcp14">MAY</em> be provided by other header fields not defined by this specification.
information about the encoding parameters can be provided by other header fields not defined by this specification.
<p id="rfc.section.3.1.2.2.p.6">Unlike Transfer-Encoding (<a href="p1-messaging.html#header.transfer-encoding" title="Transfer-Encoding">Section 3.3.1</a> of <a href="#Part1" id="rfc.xref.Part1.10"><cite title="Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing">[Part1]</cite></a>), the codings listed in Content-Encoding are a characteristic of the representation; the representation is defined in terms
that applied the encodings &MUST; generate a Content-Encoding header field
that lists the content codings in the order in which they were applied.
Additional information about the encoding parameters can be provided