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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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Cannot understand RFC 3875 section 3.2, which explains about how web servers select CGI scripts to execute

As I'm not good at English, I don't understand what this quote from RFC 3875 means. For any particular request, the server will identify all or a leading part of this path with an individual script, thus placing the script at a particular point in…
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Does RFC 9110 effectively obsolete RFC 1945?

Although I'm aware that RFC 1945 is categorized as informational - and therefore is not in the standards track, it seems that RFC 9110 would effectively obsolete RFC 1945 if the latter was an internet standard. In other words, why would someone that…
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Java X25519 shared secret is not correct when using testing vectors from RFC7748

When using RFC7748 test vectors for elliptic curve diffie hellman in java, I cannot get expected shared secret key. I am able to do so in other languages. I am using openjdk 11 with default Sun security provider. I found official tests which use…
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Recommend any "best first IETF RFC to read"

If you would advise people to start reading RFC's, which would you recommend people start with? It should be something more complex than RFC 863 (Discard Protocol), but something simpler than rocket science :)
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making a RC4 algorithm, problems with the KSA(key scheduling algorithm)

this is my code: def KSA(key): key_length = len(key) S = list(range(256)) j = 0 for i in range(0,255): j = (j + S[i] + key[i % key_length]) & 256 print(S[i],S[j]) S[i] , S[j] = S[j] , S[i] # Swapping …
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Is a standard-compliant (RFC 7230) HTTP-server allowed to respond with only 400 Bad Request?

A question that arose while reading the RFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing was "what is the simplest possible server that this would be compliant with this standard". Searching for "MUST" in the document, it…
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Send FCM push notification to sip client app on Android based on pn-param and pn-prid URI Parameters

I want to send push notifications from my PBX/SIP-Server (FreePBX 15/Asterisk 17) to sip client apps that provide 'pn-provider', 'pn-param' and 'pn-prid' URI Parameters as specified in rfc8599/draft-ietf-sipcore-sip-push-29 during REGISTER sip…
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Why has IP version 15 already been reserved?

I found that Internet Protocol (IP) version numbers are published by IANA. It refers to the following table. https://www.iana.org/assignments/version-numbers/version-numbers.xhtml Decimal Keyword Version Reference 0-1 Reserved Jon_Postel,…
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What is the RFC definition of an HTTP message header?

I read the grammar as: message-header = field-name ":" [ field-value ] field-name = token field-value = *( field-content | LWS ) field-content =
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Maximum length of headers

I am interested in the maximum length of the header name, header value. And are there any restrictions on the maximum number of parameters?
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How to implement vague OCSP Signed Response Acceptance Requirements in section 3.2 of rfc6960

I'm currently implementing an in house OCSP responder in C# and want to create a validator class for responses, but need some clarification The certificate identified in a received response corresponds to the certificate that was identified in the…
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What is the Difference between Content-Transfer-Encoding and Content-Type

I am working on using a framework to send multipart form data containing files. both of them need different content-type. However deep in the library api, i observed that in each body part, along with my content-type, Content-Transfer-Encoding of…
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What kind of grammar is this: "Set-Cookie:" Name "=" Value *(";" Attribute)

It doesn't look like any of the BNF family. I have seen this in several RFC papers, for example HTML 1.1, but it is never explained. I can't find anything other than formatting guidelines on the RFC site either
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Which RFC should I use to bring SHA1 and SHA2 authentication to RTSP 1.0?

RTSP 1.0's RFC2326 uses RFC2617 for WWW Authentication, which is the same used for HTTP authentication. This 2617 is old and only covers MD5. I know that RTSP 2.0 is out but I'm working on 1.0. Lots of IP cameras still implement 1.0 only. I guess…
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RFC-recommended representation of IPv6 addresses and inet_ntop in C

Reading the RFC recommendations (RFC 5952) for how to represent IPv6 addresses in the best way, I try to implement a function in C++ that converts an array of bytes into the appropriate textual representation, i.e. std::string. To check my code for…
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