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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2616

Obsoleted by:

RFC 9110

Updates:

RFC 2817

Authors:

R. Fielding, Ed.
J. Reschke, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpbis (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7231

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Abstract

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless \%application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext informationsystems. This document defines the semantics of HTTP/1.1 messages,as expressed by request methods, request header fields, responsestatus codes, and response header fields, along with the payload ofmessages (metadata and body content) and mechanisms for contentnegotiation.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.