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Status:

PROPOSED STANDARD

Author:

M. Nottingham

Stream:

IETF

Source:

httpbis (wit)

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DOI:  https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9211

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Abstract

To aid debugging, HTTP caches often append header fields to a response, explaining how they handled the request in an ad hoc manner. This specification defines a standard mechanism to do so that is aligned with HTTP's caching model.

For the definition of Status, see RFC 2026.

For the definition of Stream, see RFC 8729.