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RFC 2616, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", June 1999

Note: This RFC has been obsoleted by RFC 7230, RFC 7231, RFC 7232, RFC 7233, RFC 7234, RFC 7235

Note: This RFC has been updated by RFC 2817, RFC 5785, RFC 6266, RFC 6585

Source of RFC: http (app)

Errata ID: 2645
Status: Rejected
Type: Editorial
Publication Format(s) : TEXT

Reported By: Winfred Qin
Date Reported: 2010-11-27
Rejected by: Peter Saint-Andre
Date Rejected: 2011-05-03

Section 3.5 says:

Use of program names for the identification of encoding formats 
is not desirable and is discouraged for future encodings. Their 
use here is representative of historical practice, not good 
design. For compatibility with previous implementations of HTTP, 
applications SHOULD consider "x-gzip" and "x-compress" to be 
equivalent to "gzip" and "compress" respectively.

It should say:

Use of program names for the identification of encoding formats 
is not desirable and is discouraged for future encodings. Their 
use here is representative of historical practice, not good 
design. For compatibility with future implementations of HTTP, 
applications SHOULD consider "x-gzip" and "x-compress" to be 
equivalent to "gzip" and "compress" respectively.

Notes:

"For compatibility with previous implementations of HTTP",
here, 'previous' should be replaced by 'future'.
--VERIFIER NOTES--
Comment by Peter Saint-Andre:

This erratum is incorrect -- the text is clearly about
backward compatibility, not forward compatibility. The
original poster can comment in the HTTPBIS WG about this
matter since draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging has very
similar text.

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