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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What is RFC-compliant URI

While going through features of .NET framework 4.5, I found that it supports RFC-compliant URIs. What does it mean to have RFC-compliant URI support?
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When I add "METHOD: REQUEST" to iCalendar, Gmail stops recognizing as event

I'm using iCalendar to schedule events for Gmail users. However, I want to be able to send updates, if/when the event changes. I read that I must use METHOD:REQUEST in order to allow updates. However, when I add the METHOD:REQUEST to my ics file,…
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Is root@[127.1] a syntactically valid e-mail address?

Is root@[127.1] a syntactically valid e-mail address? Why? Why not?
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What RFCs need to be considered in developing an SMTP client?

In theory, the set of Request For Comments (RFC) contain everything that a developer needs to know to build an SMTP client. However, it is not always easy to know which RFCs need to be considered and which ones can be ignored. Does anyone have an…
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Why responses to PUT requests MUST NOT provide an ETag?

From Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content: An origin server MUST NOT send a validator header field (Section 7.2), such as an ETag or Last-Modified field, in a successful response to PUT unless the request's representation…
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imap_search() unknown search criterion "OR"

Trying to build a IMAP Search query to filter out specific mails via php code... Pushed into a situation where I must use the "OR" search criteria.
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Why Illegal cookies are send by Browser and received by web servers (rfc 2109, 2965)?

According to RFC 2109, 2965 cookie's value can be either HTTP token or quoted string, and token can't include non-ASCII characters. Cookie's RFC 2109 and RFC2965 HTTP's RFC 2068 and 2616 token definition:…
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DOMDocument->saveHTML() vs urlencode with commercial at symbol (@)

Using DOMDocument(), I'm replacing links in a $message and adding some things, like [@MERGEID]. When I save the changes with $dom_document->saveHTML(), the links get "sort of" url-encoded. [@MERGEID] becomes %5B@MERGEID%5D. Later in my code I need…
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Implementation of IDNs in JIDs as specified in RFC 6122

I have added International Domain Name support to an XMPP client as specified in RFC 6122. In the RFC it states: Although XMPP applications do not communicate the output of the ToASCII operation (called an "ACE label") over the wire, it MUST be …
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System.Net.MailMessage allows some invalid email address formats

As many people may already be aware, correctly validating email addresses can be somewhat of a nightmare. You can search all day long for a C# regex that matches the current RFC standards, and you'll find different regex expressions that give…
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How to extend MailboxHeader.php in Swift Mailer or validate emails

I am working with SYmfony 1.4 and swift mailer to send a bulk array of emails through Sendgrid. I am getting an RFC compliance error on some of the email addresses. One solution would be to remove the condition to throw the error, and it does work,…
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Maximum length of a rfc 4122 version 4

I see http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4122.txt What's the maximum length of a RFC 4122 version 4? In other words, is it always the same maximum length as this example string value taken from the document? f81d4fae-7dec-11d0-a765-00a0c91e6bf6 I think the…
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WebSocket close opcode

When I close() my websocket connection on the client side (FF) and debug my server side to see the incoming data, which I converted to hex to read it, I receive something like "8880825d04de" (still masked). On every close attempt I receive similar…
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Calculating MD5 Hash (RFC 1321 conform) in Matlab via Java

I want to calculate MD5 (or other) file hashes (RFC 1321 conform) within MATLAB using the Java-Security-Implementations. Thus I…
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How to figure out which version of Rust an RFC or a feature was stabilized

I am trying to figure out an easy way, if it exists, to look at a particular RFC or a PR and figure out which version of Rust it was stabilized in. I do not want to parse the releases/tags section for information. It could get difficult if it is an…
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