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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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OpenSSL support for Client Certificate URLs

I am try to determine if Client Certificate URLs from RFC 4366 is supported by OpenSSL library. I can not find any information in the OpenSSL documentation. In file tls.h I can see following defines: /* ExtensionType values from RFC3546 / RFC4366 /…
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Is there some HTTPS standard?

I have to answer this question: (4) Describe whether the products incorporate or use proprietary, unpublished or non-standard cryptographic functionality, including encryption algorithms or protocols that have not been adopted or approved by a duly…
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HTTP header for indicating required stylistic property for the response body

What HTTP header should I use for specifying stylistic properties of an HTTP response, specifically the case of keys in a JSON object? A note: I am developing a REST API where I would like clients to provide an expected case, for example camelCase…
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Difference between SIP and SIPS URI?

I am reading SIP RFC 3261. I didn't get the difference between sip uri and sips uri. Can Some one help.
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Is there any RFC document about the backlog behaviour of listening TCP socket?

Recently I'm looking into the RFC 793 to understand the TCP and the socket behaviour. One question I have is: When an SYN received, should the listen socket immediately send the ACK or wait for APP layer call accept function. Seams those behaviour…
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TLS 1.2 SHA384: What should be the length of verify_data in "Finished" message?

In many examples I came across while researching this issue, length = 12 is mentioned. However: According to the RFC, verify_data length is always 12 in older versions. However, in TLS 1.2, the length may be longer - depending on the cipher suite. …
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What really is the maximum length of email address local part?

According to Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address) and http://isemail.info/about the maximal length of the local part of an email address is 64 characters. However, I just received email from this address:…
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Is the colon-based template syntax for $resource's url parameter following a standard, or is it AngularJS-specific?

A REST service I'm working on is sending HATEOAS links back to its AngularJS client. For a few of them, we can't provide the full URL (for lack of information), just a URI Template. We want to follow RFC 6570 (section 3.2.7, "Path-Style Parameter…
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what was the first RFC to describe hypertext references?

The oldest one I can find is RFC 2616...but I would've expected links to be described before 1999.
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sortf rfc dates using bash

How can I sort a text file which contains rfc dates? Eg.: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 01:48:56 +0200 Sat, 1 Aug 2015 01:25:40 +0200 Sun, 19 Jul 2015 14:47:29 -0300 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 12:13:51 -0300 Thanks!
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RFC - 404 or 400 for relation of entity not found in PUT request

I'm building a REST interface for a database and I've run into a question. Imagine I have the 'Item' table which has two columns 'id' and 'user_id' which is a foreign key to the 'User' table. When doing a PUT request (to change an Item), the update…
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Where can I find the last specification defining which IP addresses correspond to which continent in CIDR?

I'm looking for a specification (probably a RFC) defining the connection between continent and IP addresses. I didn't find it in the RFC describing CIDR that I have read.
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RFC: What's a good approach to remotely edit very large binary files?

I have a number of rather large binary files (fixed length records, the layout of which is described in another –textual– file). Data files can get as big as 6 GB. Layout files (cobol copybooks) are small in size, usually less than 5 KB. All data…
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How to parse CMS (RFC 5652)

I consume a java web service function that returns byte array which is in CMS (RFC 5652) format. Is there a way to parse signed data from this byte array in c# or vb.net?
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What HTTP Response code to return for urls containing " or %22?

Per https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230#section-3.1.1 recipients of an invalid request-line SHOULD respond with a 400 - Bad Request. Thus as per the RFC, the request, GET /cat".html HTTP/1.1 should return 400. I've written a server that will…
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