Draft HTTP Core Documents
This is the working area for the IETF HTTP Working Group's documents that define the HTTP protocol. See also our extensions repository.
Pull requests and issues are welcome. See our contribution guidelines for information about how to participate. The building instructions explain how to build the drafts from source -- but please only create PRs against the XML (i.e., do not update the HTML).
Be aware that all contributions to our work fall under the "NOTE WELL" terms therein.
HTTP Semantics
- Editors' Draft (xml)
- draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics
- FrankenDiff of RFC723x to semantics-19
- RFC7231 (plain text, tracker)
- Open Issues
HTTP Caching
- Editors' Draft (xml)
- draft-ietf-httpbis-cache
- FrankenDiff of RFC7234 to cache-19
- RFC7234 (plain text, tracker)
- Open Issues
HTTP/1.1 (formerly "HTTP/1.1 Message Syntax and Routing")
- Editors' Draft (xml)
- draft-ietf-httpbis-messaging
- FrankenDiff of RFC723x to messaging-19
- RFC7230 (plain text, tracker)
- Open Issues
Obsolete Documents
HTTP Conditional Requests
- RFC7232 (plain text, tracker)
- Last Draft
- Merged into Semantics draft 01
HTTP Range Requests
- RFC7233 (plain text, tracker)
- Last Draft
- Merged into Semantics draft 01
HTTP Authentication
- RFC7235 (plain text, tracker)
- Last Draft
- Merged into Semantics draft 01