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HTTP Pocket Reference

Errata for HTTP Pocket Reference

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Version Location Description Submitted by Date submitted
Printed Page 2
section headed by ":80"

Ports are associated with TCP/UDP, not IP, correct? You'll never find a part
in the header of an IP packet for a port number. That's taken care of in the
TCP packet headers. So perhaps the sentence:

"The port number can be any legitimate IP port number:..." should read "The
port number can be any legitimate TCP port number..."

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 8
footnote

Use of HTTP 1.1 is encourage over 1.0

should read

Use of HTTP 1.1 is encouraged over 1.0

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 12
Example

The example for HEAD command uses the same example as the GET command so it
doesn't do what the HEAD command should do.

 Anonymous   
Printed Page 40,48
under Content-Language and Accept-Language language tags

Delete "two-letter". RFC 3066 allows for language tags of any length.
(Example: i-klingon, az-cyrillic, wen, sgn-US, zun).

 Anonymous   
PDF Page 44
In the Range header description

If the first digit in the comma-separated byte range(s) is missing, the
range is assumed to count from the end of the document.

Should read:

If the first digit in the comma-separated byte range(s) is missing, the
range is assumed to count from the beginning of the document.

 fnor  Jun 14, 2011 
Printed Page 72
Request Header Lines

The header values for Connection: Keep-Alive and Connection: Close are shown in
proper case (Close, and Keep-Alive).

The RFC shows them as lower case, as does the information on page 34.

This inconsistency is also present on pages 3, 11, and 13.

 Anonymous