RFC 10036 on Incremental Forwarding of HTTP Messages

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        RFC 10036

        Title:      Incremental Forwarding of HTTP Messages
        Author:     K. Oku,
                    T. Pauly,
                    M. Thomson
        Status:     Proposed Standard
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       August 2026
        Mailbox:    kazuhooku@gmail.com,
                    tpauly@apple.com,
                    mt@lowentropy.net
        Pages:      7


        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-httpbis-incremental-04

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc10036

        DOI:        10.17487/RFC10036

   This document specifies the "Incremental" HTTP header field, which
   instructs HTTP intermediaries to forward the HTTP message
   incrementally.

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