Questions tagged [rfc]

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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How do I retrieve a complete HTTP response from a web server including response body using an Indy TIdTCPClient instance?

I have a Delphi 6 application that uses an Indy TIdTCPClient instance to communicate with a web server. The reason I am not using an HTTP client directly is because the the server is an image streaming server that uses the same socket connection…
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Is this RFC 4226 wrong?

The test values of the RFC specify: Appendix D - HOTP Algorithm: Test Values The following test data uses the ASCII string "12345678901234567890" for the secret: Secret = 0x3132333435363738393031323334353637383930 Table 1 details for…
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RFC/Standard for Web-Polling of Long-Running Commands

We've got an old web UI wherein part of it polls an appliance via AJAX to get the results of long-running commands, so the progress and stdout/stderr of the commands can be displayed to the user. It just does a request every few seconds to get…
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Need help getting a handle on SNMP

I'm implementing some SNMP functionality into an application so I can query devices for some basic data like serial numbers, name, manufacture, etc. I've had some reasonable success getting some rudimentary SNMP calls to work. I was mostly helped…
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MAC Access Token Authentication IETF draft for OAuth 2.0

Does anybody know what happened to the IETF draft regarding the standardization of the HTTP MAC access authentication scheme for OAuth 2.0 (draft-ietf-oauth-v2-http-mac-00)? This internet draft expired on 12 November 2011 and the IETF tracker tool…
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Why does gRPC output trailers that should not be included as trailers, according to an RFC?

I've developed a gRPC service, on top of asp.net-core, testing it locally by hosting on Kestrel. In testing running on IIS, however, I have run into some oddities and discrepancies, which I was blaming on Microsoft. I have been trying to get IIS…
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Ringing an extension Node.js SIP implementation

I am attempting to create my own barebones SIP implementation. Currently, I am just trying to ring another phone for initial testing purposes, while I work on the structure of my program. As you can see in the code, after successfully registering…
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how should this ``rfc 1071`` be implemented in python?

This is my code to calculate the checksum manually using RFC 1071: from scapy.all import * data = IP(src='192.168.1.34', dst='192.168.1.1') convert_packet_bytes = bytes(data) mylst = [] for start,end in zip(convert_packet_bytes[0::1],…
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Does DeflateStream "skip" decompression if the data was not originally compressed?

I'm not familiar with the internals of DeflateStream, but I need to store files in a Vendor's DB system that uses DeflateStream on binary attachments. The first thing I noticed was that all of my files were 10-50% BIGGER after compression, but I…
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SIPREC Protocol with FREESWITCH

I was trying to enable call-recording in VOIP calls so i read about the SIPREC https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc7866.html How to use SIPREC protocol with FREESWITCH??is there any module for that?? please gives me your valuable suggestion with respect of…
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What is a 'VOP' in MPEG-4 (RTP)?

I am reading through the MPEG-4 RTP Packet RFC (http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3016.txt) and finding very often the word VOP I have not found any definition in the net or RFC, does anyone can tell me what this VOP is?
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What do these symbols mean in the RFC docs regarding grammars?

Here are the examples: Transfer-Encoding = "Transfer-Encoding" ":" 1#transfer-coding Upgrade = "Upgrade" ":" 1#product Server = "Server" ":" 1*( product | comment ) delta-seconds = 1*DIGIT Via = "Via"…
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What does "See [H4.3]" means in an RFC?

On https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2326#page-19, it has this section: 4.3 Message Body See [H4.3] and many others saying See H[x.y]. What does this H mean? Where can I find this section to read more about? I could not find in the appendix.
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What sequence number will an RTSP Announce have?

According to RFC2326, a server may send an ANNOUNCE message at any time, and the client must be prepared to answer. However, it isn't clear which CSeq would the ANNOUNCE message have. When I send a request with a method (be it PLAY, DESCRIBE,…
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When I respond to HTTP request with `Range: 0-1023`, should I include `Vary: Range` in response?

When the HTTP request contains header Range and the server responds 206 Partial Content, should the response always include Vary: Range? I think because the output will be obviously different for any different Range but I cannot find any official…
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