HTTP/1.1 Messaging
draft-ietf-httpbis-messaging-12
HTTP Working Group R. Fielding, Ed.
Internet-Draft Adobe
Obsoletes: 7230 (if approved) M. Nottingham, Ed.
Intended status: Standards Track Fastly
Expires: April 5, 2021 J. Reschke, Ed.
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HTTP/1.1 Messaging
draft-ietf-httpbis-messaging-12
Abstract
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-
level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information
systems. This document specifies the HTTP/1.1 message syntax,
message parsing, connection management, and related security
concerns.
This document obsoletes portions of RFC 7230.
Editorial Note
This note is to be removed before publishing as an RFC.
Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTP working group
mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
<https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/>.
Working Group information can be found at <https://httpwg.org/>;
source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
<https://github.com/httpwg/http-core>.
The changes in this draft are summarized in Appendix D.13.
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Table of Contents
1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.1. Requirements Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
1.2. Syntax Notation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. Message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.1. Message Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2.2. Message Parsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
2.3. HTTP Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
3. Request Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.1. Method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2. Request Target . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
3.2.1. origin-form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2.2. absolute-form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3.2.3. authority-form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
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3.2.4. asterisk-form . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
3.3. Reconstructing the Target URI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
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