HTTP and other specifications

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

HTTP

Current

  • CORS: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing

  • CSP2: Content Security Policy Level 2

  • DNT: Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)

  • eventsource: Server-Sent Events

  • Form content types: Form content types

  • Preload: Preload

  • 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

  • RFC 2046: Multipart media type (in MIME Part Two: Media Types)

  • RFC 2295: Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP

  • 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

  • RFC 5789: PATCH Method for HTTP

  • RFC 5843: Additional Hash Algorithms for HTTP Instance Digests

  • RFC 5861: HTTP Cache-Control Extensions for Stale Content

  • RFC 5987: Character Set and Language Encoding for HTTP Header Field Parameters

  • RFC 5988: Web Linking

  • RFC 6265: HTTP State Management Mechanism

  • RFC 6266: Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field

  • RFC 6454: The Web Origin Concept

  • RFC 6455: The WebSocket Protocol

  • RFC 6585: Additional HTTP Status Codes

  • RFC 6750: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage

  • RFC 6797: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

  • RFC 6903: Additional Link Relation Types

  • RFC 7034: HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options

  • RFC 7089: Time-Based Access to Resource States: Memento

  • RFC 7230: HTTP/1.1 Message Syntax and Routing

  • RFC 7231: HTTP/1.1 Semantics and Content

  • RFC 7232: HTTP/1.1 Conditional Requests

  • RFC 7233: HTTP/1.1 Range Requests

  • RFC 7234: HTTP/1.1 Caching

  • RFC 7235: HTTP/1.1 Authentication

  • RFC 7239: Forwarded HTTP Extension

  • RFC 7240: Prefer Header for HTTP

  • RFC 7469: Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP

  • RFC 7486: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA)

  • RFC 7538: HTTP Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect)

  • RFC 7540: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)

  • RFC 7541: HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2

  • RFC 7578: Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data

  • RFC 7615: HTTP Authentication-Info and Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Fields

  • RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication

  • RFC 7617: The Basic HTTP Authentication Scheme

  • RFC 7639: The ALPN HTTP Header Field

  • RFC 7692: Compression Extensions for WebSocket

  • RFC 7694: HTTP Client-Initiated Content-Encoding

  • RFC 7725: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles

  • RFC 7804: Salted Challenge Response HTTP Authentication Mechanism

  • RFC 7838: HTTP Alternative Services

  • RFC 7932: Brotli Compressed Data Format

  • RFC 7936: Clarifying Registry Procedures for the WebSocket Subprotocol Name Registry

  • RFC 8053: HTTP Authentication Extensions for Interactive Clients

  • RFC 8164: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2

  • RFC 8188: Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP

  • Webmention: Webmention

Informative

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

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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

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