RFC 7230

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing, June 2014

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Status:
PROPOSED STANDARD
Obsoletes:
RFC 2145, RFC 2616
Obsoleted by:
RFC 9110, RFC 9112
Updates:
RFC 2817, RFC 2818
Updated by:
RFC 8615
Authors:
R. Fielding, Ed.
J. Reschke, Ed.
Stream:
IETF
Source:
httpbis (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7230

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Abstract

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document provides an overview of HTTP architecture and its associated terminology, defines the "http" and "https" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes, defines the HTTP/1.1 message syntax and parsing requirements, and describes related security concerns for implementations.


For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.




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