"HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing", Roy Fielding, Jim Gettys, Jeffrey Mogul, Henrik Nielsen, Larry Masinter, Paul Leach, Tim Berners-Lee, Julian Reschke, 17-Jun-08. ( bytes)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 1 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 1 provides an overview of HTTP and its associated terminology, defines the "http" and "https" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes, defines the generic message syntax and parsing requirements for HTTP message frames, and describes general security concerns for implementations.

"HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics", Roy Fielding, Jim Gettys, Jeffrey Mogul, Henrik Nielsen, Larry Masinter, Paul Leach, Tim Berners-Lee, Julian Reschke, 17-Jun-08. ( bytes)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 2 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 2 defines the semantics of HTTP messages as expressed by request methods, request-header fields, response status codes, and response-header fields.

"HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation", Roy Fielding, Jim Gettys, Jeffrey Mogul, Henrik Nielsen, Larry Masinter, Paul Leach, Tim Berners-Lee, Julian Reschke, 17-Jun-08. ( bytes)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 3 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 3 defines HTTP message content, metadata, and content negotiation.

"HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests", Roy Fielding, Jim Gettys, Jeffrey Mogul, Henrik Nielsen, Larry Masinter, Paul Leach, Tim Berners-Lee, Julian Reschke, 17-Jun-08. ( bytes)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 4 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 4 defines request header fields for indicating conditional requests and the rules for constructing responses to those requests.

"HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses", Roy Fielding, Jim Gettys, Jeffrey Mogul, Henrik Nielsen, Larry Masinter, Paul Leach, Tim Berners-Lee, Julian Reschke, 17-Jun-08. ( bytes)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 5 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 5 defines range-specific requests and the rules for constructing and combining responses to those requests.

"HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching", Roy Fielding, Jim Gettys, Jeffrey Mogul, Henrik Nielsen, Larry Masinter, Paul Leach, Tim Berners-Lee, Julian Reschke, 17-Jun-08. ( bytes)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 6 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 6 defines requirements on HTTP caches and the associated header fields that control cache behavior or indicate cacheable response messages.

"HTTP/1.1, part 7: Authentication", Roy Fielding, Jim Gettys, Jeffrey Mogul, Henrik Nielsen, Larry Masinter, Paul Leach, Tim Berners-Lee, Julian Reschke, 17-Jun-08. ( bytes)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This document is Part 7 of the seven-part specification that defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1" and, taken together, obsoletes RFC 2616. Part 7 defines HTTP Authentication.

"Security Requirements for HTTP", Paul Hoffman, Alexey Melnikov, 13-Jul-08. ( bytes)

Recent IESG practice dictates that IETF protocols must specify mandatory-to-implement security mechanisms, so that all conformant implementations share a common baseline. This document examines all widely deployed HTTP security technologies, and analyzes the trade- offs of each.

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