An RFC is a "Request for Comment": 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.
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IM (Instant Message) Address Standard
Dear stack overflowers,
I am not sure if this is the best place for this question, but I figured I'd give it a shot.
I am currently working on an API that will allow consumers to read/write data ...
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How to decode encoded content from http/1.1 web server in a fixed-size buffer?
I am writing a http client in C on Linux.
According to RFC 1952, when "Content-Encoding" is present with value other than "identity", the response content is encoded. Available encodings include: ...
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Is there any open-source implementation of TWAMP?
I am looking for an open source implementation of TWAMP (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5357).
Does anybody know of one?
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SAP Catching Data with RFC_CALL_TRANSACTION RFC VB
I become an errorcode 1001, an SAP Remote error?
I've googled alot but didn't find anything.
Maybe someone knows whats the Problem here.
Im using SAP 720.
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Inconformity between RFC and implementation about ethernet IPv6 multicast address
In RFC2464, the prefix of ethernet IPv6 multicast address is defined as 33:33, but as I captured some packets in Wireshark, I found this prefix is actually implemented as 33:33:ff.
For example, when ...
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Clarification on URI path component?
According to RFC 3986 Section 3 - Syntax Components:
The scheme and path components are required, though the path may be
empty (no characters).
Can someone clarify how the path component ...
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What RFC defines arrays transmitted over HTTP?
What RFC defines the passing arrays over HTTP? Most web application platforms allow you to supply an array of arguments over GET or POST. The following URL is an example:
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Using the '@' symbol for a display name in an email address
Good morning everybody,
Technically, I know I can use any ASCII character in the display name of an email.
Is there any reason to avoid the '@' character in the display name?
I am thinking to use ...
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BMP RFC can't get size of file not from stream size BUT from header info
Trying to get the valid size of BMP file.
Of course the best way is just to get the Length property of the loaded stream.
But BMP header format DOES include the information about its size and I want ...
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Are protocol-relative URLs relative URLs?
So consider a protocol-relative URL like so;
//www.example.com/file.jpg
The idea I've had in my head for as long as I can remember is that protocol-relative URLs are in fact absolute URLs. They ...
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Specific uses of reserved characters in HTTP URLs
I have seen a LOT of pages which give the same lists of unreserved and reserved characters for URIs, so I have a good idea what characters are allowed and disallowed and in what contexts generally ...
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RTP AAC Packet Depacketizer
I asked earlier about H264 at RTP H.264 Packet Depacketizer
My question now is about the audio packets.
I noticed via the RTP packets that audio frames like AAC, G.711, G.726 and others all have the ...
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Why deploy TLS is a significant hurdle for many client developers
I have a question on RFC 6749 about OAuth 2.0..
In this section I read:
3.1.2.1. Endpoint Request Confidentiality
The redirection endpoint SHOULD require the use of TLS as described
in ...
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RTP H.264 Packet Depacketizer
Usually for videos the marker bit of RTP Packet indicates the last packet of the RTP.
So, with this it is guaranteed that I will receive 1 frame per packet or can receive more than one?
In the case ...
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SMTP dot stuffing.. when and where to do it?
I have found conflicting information about dot stuffing when transmitting an email.
stuff a dot if the line contains a single dot (to avoid premature termiantion)
stuff a dot to every line stat ...
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RFC 4733 event duraton in the end bit
In reading RFC 4733, it doesn't clearly state whether the event duration should not increment in the final 3 e-bits. It seems the important information in the event is the m-bit, timestamp, and ...
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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? ...
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Online SpamAssassin evaluation / RFC conformant check [closed]
I want to check the SpamAssassin SPAM score of E-Mails including headers generated by a script from a WebApp.
Therefore I need to run this mail through SpamAssassin to get the specific SPAM headers ...
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Is there RFC3987(IRI check) implementation done in JavaScript?
Is there an implementation for RFC3987 (Internationalized Resource Identifiers ) done in JavaScript so that I can use it to check if a string is a valid IRI? I need it for a script done with NodeJS.
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Which date formats are IETF-compliant RFC 2822 timestamps?
I need to parse dates in JavaScript. The format is
[2 digits day]/[2 digits month]/[4 digits year] [2 digits hour (24 mode)]:[2 digits minute]
For example, 16/02/2013 21:00
But if I do new ...
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Pound sign in url
When I open a url like http://stackoverflow.com/#abc, and then click a link in the page. I find the Referer is still http://stackoverflow.com (Chrome, F12). Why not #abc?
The same problem appears ...
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How to transfer IRfcTable details to SQL Server table?
I am using an IRfcFunction in order to get certain values from SAP to my .net application.
These details are in a IRfcTable structure.
I would like to know how to move these contents that are in the ...
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Getting email message after IMAP IDLE command exists response
Is it safe to use the total number of messages in the exists response as a way to then get the uid?
7.3.1. EXISTS Response
Contents: none
The EXISTS response reports the number of ...
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Is the mail.smtp.sendpartial property used in javamail specific to the sun implementation?
Is the mail.smtp.sendpartial property used in javamail specific to the sun implementation?
Or can I expect (or hope) that the gnu implementation would also use this property and provide the same ...
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Public key cryptography for initial authentication(PKINIT) in kerberos
I am going to implement PKINIT in kerberos for my project. I am totally confused in starting the coding part, I know all the theoretical parts of kerberos like how client, KDC and Application server ...
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C Programming - Sending HTTP Request
My recent assignment is to make a proxy in C using socket programming. The proxy only needs to be built using HTTP/1.0. After several hours of work, I have made a proxy that can be used with Chromium. ...
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RFC Exception returning empty string C#
I use RFC_READ_TABLE to output data to my software, but there are a lot of times that when RFC returns and exception, it doesn't return a description. For instance, searching for a table that doesn't ...
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What's the deal with HTTP status code 308?
An IETF RFC draft The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect) defines HTTP status 308 as Permanent Redirect. It should, of course, be noted that this is a draft ...
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smtp servers communication [closed]
I am new here and I hope I will not make a mistake while asking my questions.
I want to know how different smtp servers communicate with each other .
For example I have an email account on gmail ( ...
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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 ...
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SAP RFC CALL FROM OLE Object
I am making a Sap interface I am using COM / OLE objects I do not know about SAP but the person who I am working with has a little experience.
He says that import answer has a lot of information and ...
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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 ...
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JAX-RS/Jersey response 406 with no entity but RFC 2616 recommends one
(Hi again stackoverflow community)
I am working in Java Web Service with Jersey. I'd like to understand how could handle the following problem:
Apparently, JAX-RS (JSR 311) for every situation with ...
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How are the ascii diagrams in RFC's generated?
Not sure if this is the correct stackexchange to ask this question, but I was wondering whether anyone knows if the ascii diagrams in
http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc5382.txt are handcrafted or ...
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RTSP Redirection to another client (RFC related)
I'm currently implementing the RTSP standard in C# (server/client), but after re-reading the RFC 2326 a thousand times, there is still one thing that's unclear to me.
It looks like RTSP is just a ...
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Is there an RFC on EML file formats?
Basically, I'm attempting to work with EML files and I want to know if these files are pretty standard across different email servers... basically, is there an RFC on EML files just like there is one ...
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Easily parsed RFC index
I'd like to make a desktop search tool for RFC documents, but I don't know how to get access to an index of RFC documents in an easily parsed format (e.g. XML, JSON, csv). It would be best if it were ...
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What is my software supposed to do with a SSL certificate from the future?
I am developing a software which imports ssl certificates. When the expiration date has past, my software accuses this certificate as invalid. But, let's suppose I have a certificate that is valid ...
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Does SSL changes cookie set up behaviour when setting them up from subdomain to domain?
I am wondering if SSL and https protocol changes cookie behaviour or not?
Let's say, I have a subdomain http://subdomain.example.com that sets a cookie to domain itself http://example.com, doesn't ...
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Are MimeTypes lowercase / case insensitive?
We have some code that processes messages based on mimetypes, which requires matching them. A cursory glance suggests are all lower-case, which leads one to wonder if:
they are so by convention, or
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PHP verify valid UUID
I found the following Javascript function in another answer:
function createUUID() {
var s = [];
var hexDigits = "0123456789abcdef";
for (var i = 0; i < 36; i++) {
s[i] = ...
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URL noob - Is this a specific kind of url? ie RFC 1738?
If i have a url structured like this:
<scheme> : <path> ? <key> = <parameter> & <otherkey> = <otherparamet>
is that a specific 'type' of URL? Im trying to ...
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How to (Using Storyboard) create JSON Parser in iPhone?
Currently i am working in iPhone application, Using Storyboard to create JSONParser, Import JSON Library inside the application, then i have add #import JSON/JSON.h inside ViewController.h file, but ...
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Java protocol design
Im planning to deploy a version for some IETF drafts and need some code references or guidance. Im familiar with basic TCP sockets but want to know how to translate requirements into code.
Example: ...
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salted challenge response authentication mechanism (SCRAM) Java Implementation
Hello I am looking to implement, salted challenge response authentication mechanism (SCRAM)
RFC #5802 http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5802, for a java application.
I've read up on how it works HI() ...
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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 coded
mddigest=java.security.MessageDigest.getInstance('MD5');
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fmtp in session description protocol
When using fmtp, is the format the same value as in rtpmap?
In TS 26.114 the value indicated by fmtp is always equal to rtpmap, except than in one (or two) cases. Is it a typo?
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RFC 2068 allows comments nested within comments?
According to: RFC 2068:
Comments can be included in some HTTP header fields by surrounding
the comment text with parentheses. Comments are only allowed in
fields containing "comment" as part ...
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Uri class and IRIs
I am struggling with the Uri class in .net, when parsing IRIs.
Consider this IRI:
var iriStr = "http://example.com/base/植物/名=しそ;使用部=葉";
When I create and Uri from this (regardless of the iri ...
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HTTP: Is it acceptable to use the COPY method where the Destination header is not a URI?
Background
I'm building an API that allows clients to manipulate geospatial objects. These objects contain a location on the world (in latitude/longitude), and a good bit of metadata. The actual ...
