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PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2616

Obsoleted by:

RFC 9111

Authors:

R. Fielding, Ed.
M. Nottingham, Ed.
J. Reschke, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpbis (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7234

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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 caches and the associated headerfields that control cache behavior or indicate cacheable responsemessages.

For the definition ofStatus,seeRFC 2026.

For the definition ofStream, seeRFC 8729.