+ +

HTTP and other specifications

+ +

This chapter intends to list all the specification documents +for or related to HTTP.

HTTP

IANA Registries

+
+HTTP Method Registry +
+
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+HTTP Status Code Registry +
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+Message Headers +
+
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+HTTP Parameters +
+
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+HTTP Alt-Svc Parameter Registry +
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+HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry +
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+HTTP Cache Directive Registry +
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+HTTP Digest Algorithm Values +
+
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+HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication Device Identifier Types +
+
+
+HTTP Upgrade Token Registry +
+
+
+HTTP Warn Codes +
+
+
+HTTP/2 Parameters +
+
+
+WebSocket Protocol Registries +
+

Current

+
+CORS: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing +
+
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+CSP2: Content Security Policy Level 2 +
+
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+DNT: Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) +
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+eventsource: Server-Sent Events +
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+Form content types: Form content types +
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+Preload: Preload +
+
+
+PROXY: The PROXY protocol +
+
+
+REST: Fielding’s Dissertation +
+
+
+RFC 1945: HTTP/1.0 +
+
+
+RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3 +
+
+
+RFC 1952: GZIP file format specification version 4.3 +
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+RFC 2046: Multipart media type (in MIME Part Two: Media Types) +
+
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+RFC 2295: Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP +
+
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+RFC 2296: HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm: RVSA/1.0 +
+
+
+RFC 2817: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 +
+
+
+RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS +
+
+
+RFC 3230: Instance Digests in HTTP +
+
+
+RFC 4559: SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP Authentication in Microsoft Windows +
+
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+RFC 5789: PATCH Method for HTTP +
+
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+RFC 5843: Additional Hash Algorithms for HTTP Instance Digests +
+
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+RFC 5861: HTTP Cache-Control Extensions for Stale Content +
+
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+RFC 5988: Web Linking +
+
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+RFC 6265: HTTP State Management Mechanism +
+
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+RFC 6266: Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field +
+
+
+RFC 6454: The Web Origin Concept +
+
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+RFC 6455: The WebSocket Protocol +
+
+
+RFC 6585: Additional HTTP Status Codes +
+
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+RFC 6750: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage +
+
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+RFC 6797: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) +
+
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+RFC 6903: Additional Link Relation Types +
+
+
+RFC 7034: HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options +
+
+
+RFC 7089: Time-Based Access to Resource States: Memento +
+
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+RFC 7230: HTTP/1.1 Message Syntax and Routing +
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+RFC 7231: HTTP/1.1 Semantics and Content +
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+RFC 7232: HTTP/1.1 Conditional Requests +
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+RFC 7233: HTTP/1.1 Range Requests +
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+RFC 7234: HTTP/1.1 Caching +
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+RFC 7235: HTTP/1.1 Authentication +
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+RFC 7239: Forwarded HTTP Extension +
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+RFC 7240: Prefer Header for HTTP +
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+RFC 7469: Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP +
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+RFC 7486: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA) +
+
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+RFC 7538: HTTP Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect) +
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+RFC 7540: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2) +
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+RFC 7541: HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2 +
+
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+RFC 7578: Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data +
+
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+RFC 7615: HTTP Authentication-Info and Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Fields +
+
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+RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication +
+
+
+RFC 7617: The Basic HTTP Authentication Scheme +
+
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+RFC 7639: The ALPN HTTP Header Field +
+
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+RFC 7692: Compression Extensions for WebSocket +
+
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+RFC 7694: HTTP Client-Initiated Content-Encoding +
+
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+RFC 7725: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles +
+
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+RFC 7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP Authentication Mechanism +
+
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+RFC 7838: HTTP Alternative Services +
+
+
+RFC 7932: Brotli Compressed Data Format +
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+
+RFC 7936: Clarifying Registry Procedures for the WebSocket Subprotocol Name Registry +
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+RFC 8053: HTTP Authentication Extensions for Interactive Clients +
+
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+RFC 8164: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2 +
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+RFC 8187: Indicating Character Encoding and Language for HTTP Header Field Parameters +
+
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+RFC 8188: Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP +
+
+
+RFC 8246: HTTP Immutable Responses +
+
+
+RFC 8297: An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints +
+
+
+RFC 8336: The ORIGIN HTTP/2 Frame +
+
+
+Webmention: Webmention +
+

Upcoming

+
+Content Security Policy: Cookie Controls +
+
+
+Content Security Policy: Embedded Enforcement +
+
+
+Content Security Policy Level 3 +
+
+
+Content Security Policy Pinning +
+
+
+Referrer Policy +
+
+
+User Interface Security Directives for Content Security Policy +
+

Informative

+
+Architecture of the World Wide Web +
+
+
+RFC 2936: HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection +
+
+
+RFC 2964: Use of HTTP State Management +
+
+
+RFC 3143: Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems +
+
+
+RFC 6202: Known Issues and Best Practices for the Use of Long Polling and Streaming in Bidirectional HTTP +
+
+
+RFC 6838: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures +
+
+
+RFC 7478: Web Real-Time Communication Use Cases and Requirements +
+

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+app: URL Scheme +
+
+
+Beacon +
+
+
+File API +
+
+
+Generic Event Delivery Using HTTP Push +
+
+
+Good Practices for Capability URLs +
+
+
+HTML Living Standard +
+
+
+HTML Living Standard for Web developers +
+
+
+HTML4.01 +
+
+
+HTML5 +
+
+
+HTML5.1 +
+
+
+HTML5.2 +
+
+
+Media Fragments URI 1.0 +
+
+
+RFC 6690: Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Link Format +
+
+
+RFC 7807: Problem Details for HTTP APIs +
+
+
+RFC 6906: The profile Link Relation Type +
+
+
+Subresource Integrity +
+
+
+Tracking Compliance and Scope +
+
+
+Use cases and requirements for Media Fragments +
+
+
+WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers +
+
+
+Websocket API +
+
+
+XMLHttpRequest Level 1 +
+
+
+XMLHttpRequest Living Standard +
+

Seemingly obsolete

+
+RFC 2227: Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP +
+
+
+RFC 2310: The Safe Response Header Field +
+
+
+RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) +
+
+
+RFC 2660: The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol +
+
+
+RFC 2774: An HTTP Extension Framework +
+
+
+RFC 2965: HTTP State Management Mechanism (Cookie2) +
+
+
+RFC 3229: Delta encoding in HTTP +
+
+
+RFC 7168: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA) +
+
+
+SPDY: SPDY Protocol +
+
+
+x-webkit-deflate-frame: Deprecated Websocket compression +
+

URL

+
+RFC 3986: URI Generic Syntax +
+
+
+RFC 6570: URI Template +
+
+
+RFC 6874: Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and URIs +
+
+
+RFC 7320: URI Design and Ownership +
+
+
+URL +
+
+
+URL Living Standard +
+

WebDAV

+
+RFC 3253: Versioning Extensions to WebDAV +
+
+
+RFC 3648: WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol +
+
+
+RFC 3744: WebDAV Access Control Protocol +
+
+
+RFC 4316: Datatypes for WebDAV Properties +
+
+
+RFC 4331: Quota and Size Properties for DAV Collections +
+
+
+RFC 4437: WebDAV Redirect Reference Resources +
+
+
+RFC 4709: Mounting WebDAV Servers +
+
+
+RFC 4791: Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) +
+
+
+RFC 4918: HTTP Extensions for WebDAV +
+
+
+RFC 5323: WebDAV SEARCH +
+
+
+RFC 5397: WebDAV Current Principal Extension +
+
+
+RFC 5689: Extended MKCOL for WebDAV +
+
+
+RFC 5842: Binding Extensions to WebDAV +
+
+
+RFC 5995: Using POST to Add Members to WebDAV Collections +
+
+
+RFC 6352: CardDAV: vCard Extensions to WebDAV +
+
+
+RFC 6578: Collection Synchronization for WebDAV +
+
+
+RFC 6638: Scheduling Extensions to CalDAV +
+
+
+RFC 6764: Locating Services for Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) and vCard Extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV) +
+
+
+RFC 7809: Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV): Time Zones by Reference +
+
+
+RFC 7953: Calendar Availability +
+
+
+RFC 8144: Use of the Prefer Header Field in WebDAV +
+

CoAP

+
+RFC 7252: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP) +
+
+
+RFC 7390: Group Communication for CoAP +
+
+
+RFC 7641: Observing Resources in CoAP +
+
+
+RFC 7650: A CoAP Usage for REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD) +
+
+
+RFC 7959: Block-Wise Transfers in CoAP +
+
+
+RFC 7967: CoAP Option for No Server Response +
+
+
+RFC 8075: Guidelines for Mapping Implementations: HTTP to CoAP +
+
+
+RFC 8132: PATCH and FETCH Methods for CoAP +
+
+
+RFC 8323: CoAP over TCP, TLS, and WebSockets +
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