File formats:

Status:

INTERNET STANDARD

Obsoletes:

RFC 7234

Authors:

R. Fielding, Ed.
M. Nottingham, Ed.
J. Reschke, Ed.

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpbis (wit)

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Abstract

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document defines HTTP caches and the associated header fields that control cache behavior or indicate cacheable response messages.

This document obsoletes RFC 7234.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.