rfc-2616

Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee

date1999-06 streamIETF areaapp wghttp statusDRAFT STANDARD pages176 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616 doi10.17487/RFC2616 errataview

HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This specification defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1", and is an update to RFC 2068. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

obsoleted by

rfc-7230 — Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
rfc-7231 — Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content
rfc-7232 — Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests
rfc-7233 — Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests
rfc-7234 — Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching
rfc-7235 — Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication

obsoletes

rfc-2068 — Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

updated by

rfc-2817 — Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1
rfc-5785 — Defining Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
rfc-6266 — Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
rfc-6585 — Additional HTTP Status Codes