RFC 7234
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching, June 2014
- Canonical URL:
- https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7234.txt
- File formats:
- Status:
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Obsoletes:
- RFC 2616
- Authors:
- R. Fielding, Ed.
M. Nottingham, Ed.
J. Reschke, Ed. - Stream:
- IETF
- Source:
- httpbis (app)
DOI: 10.17487/RFC7234
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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.
For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.
For the definition of Stream, see RFC 4844.