Merge pull request #222 from matrix-org/daniel/removessmention

Don't mention server-server stuff in client-server spec
pull/977/head
Daniel Wagner-Hall 9 years ago
commit 7b63c042fb

@ -29,12 +29,11 @@ API Standards
Need to specify any HMAC or access_token lifetime/ratcheting tricks
We need to specify capability negotiation for extensible transports
The mandatory baseline for communication in Matrix is exchanging JSON objects
over HTTP APIs. HTTPS is mandated as the baseline for server-server
(federation) communication. HTTPS is recommended for client-server
communication, although HTTP may be supported as a fallback to support basic
HTTP clients. More efficient optional transports for client-server
communication will in future be supported as optional extensions - e.g. a
The mandatory baseline for client-server communication in Matrix is exchanging
JSON objects over HTTP APIs. HTTPS is recommended for communication, although
HTTP may be supported as a fallback to support basic
HTTP clients. More efficient optional transports
will in future be supported as optional extensions - e.g. a
packed binary encoding over stream-cipher encrypted TCP socket for
low-bandwidth/low-roundtrip mobile usage. For the default HTTP transport, all
API calls use a Content-Type of ``application/json``. In addition, all strings
@ -95,7 +94,7 @@ Some requests have unique error codes:
.. _sect:txn_ids:
The Client-Server API typically uses ``HTTP PUT`` to submit requests with a
The client-server API typically uses ``HTTP PUT`` to submit requests with a
client-generated transaction identifier. This means that these requests are
idempotent. The scope of a transaction identifier is a particular access token.
It **only** serves to identify new

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