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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2616

Obsoleted by:

RFC 9110

Authors:

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

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IETF

Source:

httpbis (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7232

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Abstract

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext informationsystems. This document defines HTTP/1.1 conditional requests,including metadata header fields for indicating state changes,request header fields for making preconditions on such state, andrules for constructing the responses to a conditional request whenone or more preconditions evaluate to false.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.