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	<front>
  <title abbrev="HTTP Method Registrations">Initial Hypertext&#160;Transfer&#160;Protocol&#160;(HTTP)
  Method&#160;Registrations</title>

  <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke">
    <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
    <address>
      <postal>
        <street>Hafenweg 16</street>
        <city>Muenster</city><region>NW</region><code>48155</code>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </postal>
      <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>	
      <uri>http://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</uri>	
    </address>
  </author>

  <date month="June" year="2014"/>

  <area>Applications</area>
  <workgroup>HTTPbis</workgroup>
  
  <keyword>Hypertext Transfer Protocol</keyword>
  <keyword>HTTP</keyword>
  <keyword>Request Method</keyword>

  <abstract>
  <t>
    This document registers those Hypertext Transfer
    Protocol (HTTP) methods that have been defined in RFCs
    before the IANA HTTP Method Registry was established.
  </t>
  </abstract>
  
  </front>

  <middle>

<section title="Introduction" anchor="introduction">
  <t>
    This document registers those Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) methods
    that have been defined in RFCs other than 
    <xref target="RFC7231"/> before the IANA HTTP Method
    Registry was established.
  </t>
</section>  
  
<section title="Security Considerations" anchor="security.considerations">
  <t>
    There are no security considerations related to the registration itself.
  </t>
  <t>
    Security considerations applicable to the individual HTTP methods ought to be
    discussed in the specifications that define them.
  </t>
</section>  

<section title="IANA Considerations" anchor="iana.considerations">
<t>
  The table below provides registrations
  of HTTP method names that have been added to the IANA "Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registry"
  at <eref target="http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods"/>
  (see <xref target="RFC7231" x:rel="#method.registry"/>).
</t>
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<ttcol>Method Name</ttcol>
<ttcol>Safe</ttcol>
<ttcol>Idempotent</ttcol>
<ttcol>Reference</ttcol>

<c>ACL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3744" x:fmt="," x:sec="8.1"/></c>

<c>BASELINE-CONTROL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="12.6"/></c>
<c>BIND</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5842" x:fmt="," x:sec="4"/></c>

<c>CHECKIN</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.4"/> and <xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.4"/></c>
<c>CHECKOUT</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.3"/> and <xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="8.8"/></c>
<c>COPY</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.8"/></c>

<c>LABEL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="8.2"/></c>
<c>LINK</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC2068" x:fmt="," x:sec="19.6.1.2"/></c>
<c>LOCK</c><c>no</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.10"/></c>

<c>MERGE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="11.2"/></c>
<c>MKACTIVITY</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="13.5"/></c>
<c>MKCALENDAR</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4791" x:fmt="," x:sec="5.3.1"/></c>
<c>MKCOL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.3"/></c>
<c>MKREDIRECTREF</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4437" x:fmt="," x:sec="6"/></c>
<c>MKWORKSPACE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="6.3"/></c>
<c>MOVE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.9"/></c>

<c>ORDERPATCH</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3648" x:fmt="," x:sec="7"/></c>

<c>PATCH</c><c>no</c><c>no</c><c><xref target="RFC5789" x:fmt="," x:sec="2"/></c>
<c>PROPFIND</c><c>yes</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.1"/></c>
<c>PROPPATCH</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.2"/></c>

<c>REBIND</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5842" x:fmt="," x:sec="6"/></c>
<c>REPORT</c><c>yes</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="3.6"/></c>

<c>SEARCH</c><c>yes</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5323" x:fmt="," x:sec="2"/></c>

<c>UNBIND</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC5842" x:fmt="," x:sec="5"/></c>
<c>UNCHECKOUT</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="4.5"/></c>
<c>UNLINK</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC2068" x:fmt="," x:sec="19.6.1.3"/></c>
<c>UNLOCK</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4918" x:fmt="," x:sec="9.11"/></c>
<c>UPDATE</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="7.1"/></c>
<c>UPDATEREDIRECTREF</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC4437" x:fmt="," x:sec="7"/></c>

<c>VERSION-CONTROL</c><c>no</c><c>yes</c><c><xref target="RFC3253" x:fmt="," x:sec="3.5"/></c>

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<references title="Normative References">


<reference anchor="RFC7231">
  <front>
    <title>Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content</title>
    <author initials="R." surname="Fielding" fullname="Roy T. Fielding" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="Adobe">Adobe Systems Incorporated</organization>
      <address><email>fielding@gbiv.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address><email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="June" year="2014"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7231"/>
  <x:source href="rfc7231.xml" basename="rfc7231"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC2068">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="HTTP/1.1">Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</title>
    <author initials="R." surname="Fielding" fullname="Roy T. Fielding">
      <organization>University of California, Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>fielding@ics.uci.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Gettys" fullname="Jim Gettys">
      <organization>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>jg@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Mogul" fullname="Jeffrey C. Mogul">
      <organization>Digital Equipment Corporation, Western Research Laboratory</organization>
      <address><email>mogul@wrl.dec.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="H." surname="Nielsen" fullname="Henrik Frystyk Nielsen">
      <organization>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>frystyk@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="T." surname="Berners-Lee" fullname="Tim Berners-Lee">
      <organization>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>timbl@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="January" year="1997"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="2068"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC3253">
  <front>
    <title>Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)</title>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="G. Clemm">
      <organization>Rational Software</organization>
      <address><email>geoffrey.clemm@rational.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Amsden" fullname="J. Amsden">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address><email>jamsden@us.ibm.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="T." surname="Ellison" fullname="T. Ellison">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address><email>tim_ellison@uk.ibm.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="C." surname="Kaler" fullname="C. Kaler">
      <organization>Microsoft</organization>
      <address><email>ckaler@microsoft.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="J. Whitehead">
      <organization>UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2002"/>
    </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3253"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor='RFC3648'>
  <front>
    <title abbrev='WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol'>Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Ordered Collections Protocol</title>
    <author initials='J.' surname='Whitehead' fullname='Jim Whitehead'>
      <organization abbrev='U.C. Santa Cruz'>UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials='J. F.' surname='Reschke' fullname='Julian F. Reschke' role='editor'>
      <organization abbrev='greenbytes'>greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address><email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email></address>
    </author>
    <date year='2003' month='December' />
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name='RFC' value='3648' />
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC3744">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="WebDAV Access Control Protocol">Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Access Control Protocol</title>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="Geoffrey Clemm">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address><email>geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke">
      <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address><email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="E." surname="Sedlar" fullname="Eric Sedlar">
      <organization>Oracle Corporation</organization>
      <address><email>eric.sedlar@oracle.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="Jim Whitehead">
      <organization abbrev="U.C. Santa Cruz">U.C. Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="May" year="2004"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="3744"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC4437">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="WebDAV Redirect Reference Resources">Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) Redirect Reference Resources</title>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="Jim Whitehead">
      <organization abbrev="U.C. Santa Cruz">UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="Geoff Clemm">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address>
        <email>geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
      <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address>
       <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2006"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="4437"/>
</reference>  

<reference anchor="RFC4791">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="CalDAV">Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)</title>
    <author initials="C." surname="Daboo" fullname="Cyrus Daboo">
      <organization abbrev="Apple">Apple Inc.</organization>
      <address>
        <email>cyrus@daboo.name</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="B." surname="Desruisseaux" fullname="Bernard Desruisseaux">
      <organization abbrev="Oracle">Oracle Corporation</organization>
      <address>
        <email>bernard.desruisseaux@oracle.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="L.M." surname="Dusseault" fullname="Lisa Dusseault">
      <organization abbrev="CommerceNet">CommerceNet</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ldusseault@commerce.net</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2007"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="4791"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC4918">
  <front>
    <title>HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)</title>
    <author initials="L." surname="Dusseault" fullname="Lisa Dusseault" role="editor">
      <organization>CommerceNet</organization>
      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>2064 Edgewood Dr.</street>
          <city>Palo Alto</city> <region>CA</region> <code>94303</code>
          <country>US</country>
        </postal>
        <email>ldusseault@commerce.net</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="June" year="2007"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="4918"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC5323">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="WebDAV SEARCH">Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH</title>
    <author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
    	<organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
  		<address>
  			<email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>	
  		</address>
  	</author>
  	<author initials="S." surname="Reddy" fullname="Surendra Reddy">
  		<organization abbrev="Mitrix">Mitrix, Inc.</organization>
  		<address>
        <email>Surendra.Reddy@mitrix.com</email>
  	  </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Davis" fullname="Jim Davis">
  		<address>
        <email>jrd3@alum.mit.edu</email>
      </address>
    </author>
  	<author initials="A." surname="Babich" fullname="Alan Babich">
  		<organization abbrev="IBM">IBM Corporation</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ababich@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>    
    <date month="November" year="2008"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5323"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC5842">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="Binding Extensions to WebDAV">Binding Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)</title>
    <author initials="G." surname="Clemm" fullname="Geoffrey Clemm">
      <organization>IBM</organization>
      <address>
        <email>geoffrey.clemm@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Crawford" fullname="Jason Crawford">
      <organization>IBM Research</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ccjason@us.ibm.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
  	<author initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" fullname="Julian F. Reschke" role="editor">
  		<organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address>
  		  <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>	
  		</address>
  	</author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Whitehead" fullname="Jim Whitehead">
      <organization abbrev="U.C. Santa Cruz">UC Santa Cruz, Dept. of Computer Science</organization>
      <address>
        <email>ejw@cse.ucsc.edu</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="April" year="2010"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5842"/>
</reference>

<reference anchor="RFC5789">
  <front>
    <title abbrev="HTTP PATCH">PATCH Method for HTTP</title>
    <author initials="L.M." surname="Dusseault" fullname="Lisa Dusseault">
      <organization abbrev="Linden Lab">Linden Lab</organization>
      <address>
        <email>lisa.dusseault@gmail.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J.M." surname="Snell" fullname="James M. Snell">
      <address>
        <email>jasnell@gmail.com</email>
      </address>
    </author>
    <date month="March" year="2010"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="5789"/>
</reference>

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