TEST CLAUSE INFO

Gist

a proxy MUST NOT change the order of multiple header field-values with one field-name

Requirements

This test clause tests the following 1 requirement(s).

1. "The order in which header fields with the same field-name are received is therefore significant to the interpretation of the combined field value, and thus a proxy MUST NOT change the order of these field values when a message is forwarded" (rfc2616)

Developer notes

In general, preserving field order does not imply forwarding all fields. Another test clause checks that all fields are forwarded. That clause ignores the field order.

Members

This test clause contains the following 8 members:

• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Allow response header with 6 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Allow-toClt)
• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Cache-Control request header with 6 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Cache-Control-toSrv)
• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Cache-Control response header with 6 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Cache-Control-toClt)
• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Content-Language response header with 6 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Content-Language-toClt)
• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Via request header with 6 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Via-toSrv)
• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Via response header with 6 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Via-toClt)
• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Pragma request header with 7 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Pragma-toSrv)
• proxy MUST preserve field-value order when forwarding multi-valued Pragma response header with 7 values (test_case/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order-Pragma-toClt)

Memberships

This test clause belongs to the following 2 groups:

• Cases not involving caching (test_group/proxy-cacheless)
• Cases testing forwarding of end-to-end HTTP headers (test_group/rfc2616/endHdr)

Internal Identifier

This test clause identifier is test_clause/rfc2616/endHdr-fwd-order. Please use that identifier when refering to this test clause.