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The Safe Response Header Field
RFC 2310

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['http', 'hyper', 'text', 'transfer', 'protocol']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System)
Changed author "K. Holtman": changed name from "Koen Holtman" to "K. Holtman", changed affiliation from "TUE" to "Technische Universiteit Eindhoven", cleared country (was "5600 MB …
Changed author "K. Holtman": changed name from "Koen Holtman" to "K. Holtman", changed affiliation from "TUE" to "Technische Universiteit Eindhoven", cleared country (was "5600 MB Eindhoven (The Netherlands)"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2021-12-10
(System)
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document defines a HTTP response header field called Safe, which can be used to indicate …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (changed abstract to 'This document defines a HTTP response header field called Safe, which can be used to indicate that repeating a HTTP request is safe.  Such an indication will allow user agents to handle retries of some safe requests, in particular safe POST requests, in a more user-friendly way.', changed standardization level to Historic)
2021-12-06
Amy Vezza New status of Historic approved by the IESG
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/status-change-http-experiments-to-historic/
1998-04-01
(System) RFC published