Re: new editorial (?) issue: IDENTITY-TE
Jim Gettys (jg@pa.dec.com)
Thu, 12 Mar 1998 05:59:15 -0800
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> From: Jeffrey Mogul <mogul@pa.dec.com>
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> Date: Tue, 10 Feb 98 18:53:47 PST
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> Subject: new editorial (?) issue: IDENTITY-TE
>
> This is implicit in the current (rev-01) draft, but I think it
> could be made explicit:
>
> In section 3.6 (Transfer Codings), after:
> The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) acts as a
> registry for transfer-coding value tokens. Initially, the
> registry contains the following tokens: "chunked" (section
> 3.6.1), "identity" (section 3.6.2), "gzip" (section 3.5),
> "compress" (section 3.5), and "deflate" (section 3.5).
>
> Add this paragraph:
>
> The "identity" transfer-coding is used only in the TE
> header, and SHOULD NOT be used in the Transfer-Encoding
> header.
>
This is already stated in the same way in 3.6.2 Identity Transfer Coding
> Also, in section 3.5, there's a minor grammatical error in the
> existing analogous statement:
>
> identity
> The default (identity) encoding; the use of no
> transformation whatsoever. This content-coding is used only
> in the Accept-Encoding header, and SHOULD NOT be used in
> Content-Encoding header.
>
> should be:
>
> identity
> The default (identity) encoding; the use of no
> transformation whatsoever. This content-coding is used only
> in the Accept-Encoding header, and SHOULD NOT be used in
> the Content-Encoding header.
> ^^^
>
Done.
- Jim
> -Jeff