@techreport{fielding-http-p4-conditional-00, number = {draft-fielding-http-p4-conditional-00}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-fielding-http-p4-conditional/00/}, author = {Roy T. Fielding and Jim Gettys and Jeffrey Mogul and Henrik Nielsen and Larry M Masinter and Paul J. Leach and Tim Berners-Lee}, title = {{HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests}}, pagetotal = 17, year = 2007, month = nov, day = 12, abstract = {The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 4 of the eight-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, updates RFC 2616 and RFC 2617. Part 4 defines request header fields for indicating conditional requests and the rules for constructing responses to those requests.}, }