@misc{rfc7232, series = {Request for Comments}, number = 7232, howpublished = {RFC 7232}, publisher = {RFC Editor}, doi = {10.17487/RFC7232}, url = {https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7232}, author = {Roy T. Fielding and Julian Reschke}, title = {{Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests}}, pagetotal = 28, year = 2014, month = jun, 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.}, }