Subject: Fwd: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7233 (5474)

From: Mark Nottingham <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2018 16:48:38 +1000

This didn't make it to the WG list AFAICT, but I think it's correct, and Julian has confirmed separately.

Mark as accepted, I think.

Cheers,

> 
> From: RFC Errata System <[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>>
> Subject: [Technical Errata Reported] RFC7233 (5474)
> Date: 22 August 2018 at 3:02:48 am AEST
> To: [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>, [email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>
> 
> The following errata report has been submitted for RFC7233,
> "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests".
> 
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> You may review the report below and at:
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5474 <http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata/eid5474>
> 
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> Type: Technical
> Reported by: Kalin Gyokov <[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]>>
> 
> Section: 4.4.
> 
> Original Text
> -------------
> For byte ranges, failing to overlap the current extent means that the
>   first-byte-pos of all of the byte-range-spec values were greater than
>   the current length of the selected representation.
> 
> Corrected Text
> --------------
> For byte ranges, failing to overlap the current extent means that the
>   first-byte-pos of all of the byte-range-spec values were greater than
>   or equal to the current length of the selected representation.
> 
> Notes
> -----
> If the length of the representation is 500 bytes, then the range of the entire representation is 0-499. Then a range starting at byte position 500 fails to overlap the representation.
> 
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> --------------------------------------
> RFC7233 (draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-26)
> --------------------------------------
> Title               : Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests
> Publication Date    : June 2014
> Author(s)           : R. Fielding, Ed., Y. Lafon, Ed., J. Reschke, Ed.
> Category            : PROPOSED STANDARD
> Source              : Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis APP
> Area                : Applications
> Stream              : IETF
> Verifying Party     : IESG

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