RFC 7639 on The ALPN HTTP Header Field

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        RFC 7639

        Title:      The ALPN HTTP Header Field 
        Author:     A. Hutton, J. Uberti, M. Thomson
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       August 2015
        Mailbox:    andrew.hutton@unify.com, 
                    justin@uberti.name, 
                    martin.thomson@gmail.com
        Pages:      7
        Characters: 14455
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-httpbis-tunnel-protocol-05.txt

        URL:        https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7639

        DOI:        http://dx.doi.org/10.17487/RFC7639

This specification allows HTTP CONNECT requests to indicate what
protocol is intended to be used within the tunnel once established,
using the ALPN header field.

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

This is now a Proposed Standard.

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