@misc{rfc7231, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 7231, howpublished = {RFC 7231}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC7231}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7231}, author = {Roy T. Fielding and Julian Reschke}, title = {{Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content}}, pagetotal = 101, year = 2014, month = jun, abstract = {The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless \textbackslash{}\%application- level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document defines the semantics of HTTP/1.1 messages, as expressed by request methods, request header fields, response status codes, and response header fields, along with the payload of messages (metadata and body content) and mechanisms for content negotiation.}, }