RFC 2616 on HTTP/1.1

RFC Editor <rfc-ed@ISI.EDU> Mon, 14 June 1999 18:33 UTC

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        RFC 2616:

        Title:	    Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
	Author(s):  R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk,
		    L. Masinter, P. Leach, T. Berners-Lee
        Status:     Draft Standard
	Date:       June 1999
        Mailbox:    fielding@ics.uci.edu, jg@w3.org,
		    mogul@wrl.dec.com, frystyk@w3.org,
	            masinter@parc.xerox.com, paulle@microsoft.com, 
		    timbl@w3.org
        Pages:      176
        Characters: 422317
	Obsoletes:  2068
        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-06.txt


        URL:        ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt


The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information
systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for
many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and
distributed object management systems, through extension of its
request methods, error codes and headers.  A feature of HTTP is the
typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be
built independently of the data being transferred.

This document is a product of the HyperText Transfer Protocol Working
Group of the IETF.

This is now a Draft Standard Protocol.

This document specifies an Internet standards track protocol for
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