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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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HTTP PATCH - RFC 6902- JAVA Json library

I'm trying to use the HTTP PATCH method based on RFC 6902. Is there any good JAVA library that can use this perform these operations (add, remove, replace) described in this chapter PATCH Operations?
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What is FTP ACCT command for?

The FTP protocol has quite some commands that can be used: ABOR - abort a file transfer CWD - change working directory DELE - delete a remote file LIST - list remote files MDTM - return the modification time of a file MKD - make a remote…
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Confusion about the 005 IRC numeric and general RFC

After rading through the most recent IRC RFC I've gotten a bit confused, the RFC states, under section 5.1 that response 005 is used for a bounce message, but whenever I connect to an IRC server, the 005 numeric response is used for ISUPPORT, as…
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How do I suggest a change to the HTTP standard?

I have a fairly simple addition to the HTTP standard. An ambitious goal I know, but I'd at least like to submit a proposal and get feedback on the idea. What is the proper forum/method of doing so?
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Building a simple SMTP client using Websockets

Just out of curiosity and some experimentation of mine, i'd like to know what it would take to build an STMP client on the browser. A few years ago this was nearly impossible but now almost every browser in the planet seems to have implemented web…
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purpose of Daytime servers

Can someone please tell me what is the purpose of daytime servers? I referred to some sites like wikipedia, but couldn't find an answer.
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Does the "C" code algorithm in RFC1071 work well on big-endian machine?

As described in RFC1071, an extra 0-byte should be added to the last byte when calculating checksum in the situation of odd count of bytes: But in the "C" code algorithm, only the last byte is added: The above code does work on little-endian…
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What does this ambiguous pronoun represent in the text of RFC 4880?

What does RFC 4880 sec 5.1 mean by "this"? The value "m" in the above formulas is derived from the session key as follows. First, the session key is prefixed with a one-octet algorithm identifier that specifies the symmetric encryption algorithm…
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How to represent error messages in Atom feeds?

We are implementing a REST interface, and we've decided to use application/atom+xml as the output format, as it gives us a nice standard way to return a list of items together with links to the related details. However, we are struggling to find a…
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Match IRC channel with regular expression (RFCs 2811-2813)

I know this question has been answered in accordance with RFC 1459. But how would one go about using regular expressions to match channels in accordance with RFCs 2811-2813? RFC 2811 states: Channels names are strings (beginning with a '&', '#',…
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Is syslog a logging standard, or a protocol standard?

Syslog is a network protocol as described in RFC 5424 and RFC 3164 before that. -AND- Syslog is a standard in the *nix world. It's how you do logging. Even on just the local machine, UDP packets are never created. (Right?) The protocol, and the RFC,…
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Is there a semi-standard way to associate a URL with an IRC user?

I'm in the process of doing some identity consolidation, so I'm providing URLs to me at various locations on the internet. I'm quite active on IRC, so this naturally lead me to wonder whether there was a way to provide a link to my IRC presence.…
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Should we encode slashes in search part of URLs?

The rfc 1738 is not precise about encoding of forward slashes in "search part": If the character corresponding to an octet is reserved in a scheme, the octet must be encoded. ... only alphanumerics, the special characters "$-_.+!*'(),", and …
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Custom Base64 Encoder Doesn't Encode Correctly

I decided to make my own Base64 encoder and decoder, despite there already being a module for this in the standard library. It's just meant to be a fun project. However, the encoder, for some reason, incorrectly encodes some characters, and I…
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Does the IETF publish versions RFCs that include errata?

When reading an RFC published by the IETF, it's hard to know what content has been corrected without explicitly checking the errata. For example, in RFC 7049 Section 2.4.2, the following correction exists in the errata: diff --git a/rfc7049.txt…
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