File formats:

Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 2616

Obsoleted by:

RFC 9110

Authors:

R. Fielding, Ed.
J. Reschke, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpbis (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC7232

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Abstract

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application- level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document defines HTTP/1.1 conditional requests, including metadata header fields for indicating state changes, request header fields for making preconditions on such state, and rules for constructing the responses to a conditional request when one or more preconditions evaluate to false.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.