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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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In HTTP 502, what is meant by an invalid response?

I'm trying to test a server to see if it behaves according to the definition below and for that, I need to construct and send an invalid response to the gateway server, from the upstream server. The HTTP spec says the following regarding the status…
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Link to IMAP URL Scheme?

There is a RFC for IMAP URL Scheme: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5092 Creating a link which matches the scheme in HTML is easy. How can I make a link like this work in web clients? Peter's…
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W3C validator says 'feed does not validate' 'url must be a full URL'... whats wrong with it?

Validating my feed, it has an enclosure with a URL of https://archive.org/download/NigelFarageAPersonalMessageToNorthernIrelandVoters./Nigel%20Farage,%20a%20personal%20message%20to%20Northern%20Ireland%20voters..mp3 I know it is a bit convoluted...…
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JSON-RPC and Json-rpc service discovery specifications

I'm going to implement JSON-RPC web service. I need specifications for this. So far I had found only one resource that can be called as real specifications: JSON-RPC 1.0 http://json-rpc.org/wiki/specification Proposal of JSON-RPC 2.0:…
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How do you comment on an RFC?

I have some comments about the OAuth draft RFC (specifically about some errors it contains), but I'm not sure what the accepted way is to make them. There's an email address at the bottom, so do I simply send mail there with the comments, or is…
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RFC3986 - which pchars need to be percent-encoded?

I need to generate a href to a URI. All easy with the exception when it comes to reserved characters which need percent-encoding, e.g. link to /some/path;element should appear as (I know that path;element represents a…
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Is this a valid email address?

"Françoise Lefèvre"@example.com I'm reading RFC 5321 to try to actually understand what constitutes a valid email address -- and I'm probably making this a lot more difficult than it needs to be -- but this has been bugging me. …
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What date RFC does Twitter use?

Doc use : Tue Apr 07 22:52:51 +0000 2009 as an example. Can anyone identify the rfc? Cheers
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Parsing forwarded emails

I'm writing some code to parse forwarded emails. What I'm not sure is if maybe there is some Python library, some RFC I could stick to or some other resource that would allow me to automate the task. To be precise, I don't know if the "layout" of…
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Charset in data URI

Over the years from reading the evolving specs I had assumed that RFC 3986 had finally settled on UTF-8 encoding for escape octet sequences. That is, if my URI has %XX%YY%ZZ I can take that sequence of decoded octets (for any URI in the…
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What's the best way for the client app to immediately react to an update in the database?

What is the best way to program an immediate reaction to an update to data in a database? The simplest method I could think of offhand is a thread that checks the database for a particular change to some data and continually waits to check it again…
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What does "clock sequence" mean?

RFC 4122 (A Universally Unique IDentifier (UUID) URN Namespace) uses the term "clock sequence": 4.1.5. Clock Sequence For UUID version 1, the clock sequence is used to help avoid duplicates that could arise when the clock is set backwards in…
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Why should I convince developers to use port 587 for all SMTP communication?

There is a growing trend to use port 587 for all client to MTA communications. It's in a standards track RFC: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt My question is "Why?". Why have 2 instances of a SMTP server running on the same server, if they both…
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JSON Unicode escape sequence - lowercase or not?

I was reading RFC 4627 and I can't figure out if the following is valid JSON or not. Consider this minimalistic JSON text: ["\u005c"] The problem is the lowercase c. According to the text of the RFC it is allowed: Any character may be escaped. If…
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javascript RFC 3986 implementation?

Is there already a javascript function/library/snippet written for the validation of the RFC 1738 URL specifications listed at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3986.txt?
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