Canonical URL:

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7230.txt

File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2145, RFC 2616

Updates:

RFC 2817, RFC 2818

Authors:

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

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpbis (app)

Cite this RFC: TXT  |  XML

DOI:  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 4844.

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