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An RFC is a "Request For Comments": the form of internet standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) until they are made standards. And the usual form of reference to those standards.

An RFC is a "Request For Comments": the form of internet standards from the Internet Engineering Taskforce (IETF) until they are made standards. And the usual form of reference to those standards.

Official Site: http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html

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Should I use different satus codes in restful api, instead only 200?

I'm developming RESTful API service. I've got disagreement between Me and my Team Lead, on the subject: "HTTP Response status codes". My Team Lead talks, that default HTTP status codes written in RFC is awful and it's very hard to handle them on the…
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IRC (RFC 1459) message prefix

This question seems fairly pedantic, however it feels reasonably important when trying to follow the RFC. I am trying to write an IRC client and I am using the RFC to follow how the protocol should be written. I came across the section for message…
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What are visible ASCII characters?

RFC7230, the new HTTP/1.1 specification, refers to VCHAR as visible ASCII characters. What are those characters specifically? The RFC specification doesn't mention that. The US-ASCII spec in RFC20 doesn't also mention which characters are visible…
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What is the definition of "lexically-ordered" base64 and why is RFCC-1940 apparently the canonical reference?

Today I was reading the documentation for Netty's Base64Dialect class. It includes a dialect called ORDERED, of which it says, somewhat briefly: Special "ordered" dialect of Base64 described in RFC1940. To cut to the chase, I can't find any…
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How to get a RFC in XML format?

It seems Internet-Draft provides a link to download a XML file (e.g. https://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-ietf-oauth-v2-31.xml), but I couldn't find a way to download a RFC (e.g. https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6749) in XML. Is there any way to do…
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Is this a broken subject line?

Using the System.Net.Mail.MailMessage class I created an email. The email was in german and needed to contain the umlaut ü. For this reason I declared the SubjectEncoding property of the object as Encoding.UTF8. On receiving the email I noticed that…
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RFC2560 vs RFC5019

I read some documents about RFC2560 and RFC5019. I realized that both of them are for OCSP to check validity of a certificate but i could not find any differences between them.
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Is there a standard and an implementation for Icalendar event RSVP

The summary is that I am now implementing an event confirmation system and can't find the right format for the ICalendar replies. Therefore I wonder if there is an example out there of complete REPLY message and maybe a PHP library that would wrap…
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If a weighted HTTP header has duplicate values, with differing weights, how should this be handled?

Values of request headers, such as Accept-Language, Accept-Encoding, etc., have either implicitly or explicitly weighted values (en; q=0.8 for instance). In the unlikely event that the parsed value of the complete field value yields ambiguous…
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Content-Type with charset only

I came across this interesting header: Content-Type: charset=utf-8 Set HTTP header to UTF-8 using PHP The answerer says that this syntax is defined by RFC 2616, but I am not seeing it in the provided link. Is this valid syntax, and if so…
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Logic of Message-ID created by MS Outlook

Could somebody please explain the logic of Message-ID created by MS Outlook? especially this part “D45A2C0A.EB29” User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/14.6.9.160926 Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2016 17:08:26 -0600 Subject: Video playback error From: “AAAAAAAAAAAA…
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WebSocket - Payload Length

The WebSocket RFC states the following in the [Data Frame Section] (https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6455#section-5.2) when describing the Payload Length: If 127, the following 8 bytes interpreted as a 64-bit unsigned integer (the most significant…
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Standard format for REST pagination, field selection, querying?

When designing a REST API, following guidance such as 10 Best Practices for Better RESTful API, there seem to be all sorts of ways to provide a query syntax, pagination, selecting fields to return, etc. For example, some ways to do…
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What's the difference between "obsoletes" and "updates" in RFC's?

The rfc-editor says "Obsoletes xxxx" refers to other RFCs that this one replaces. "Updates xxxx" refers to other RFCs that this one merely updates but does not replace. But this begs the question... why would an RFC update another RFC without…
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