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RFC 8164
Title: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2
Author: M. Nottingham,
M. Thomson
Status: Experimental
Stream: IETF
Date: May 2017
Mailbox: mnot@mnot.net,
martin.thomson@gmail.com
Pages: 10
Characters: 19620
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-httpbis-http2-encryption-11.txt
URL: https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8164
DOI: 10.17487/RFC8164
This document describes how "http" URIs can be accessed using
Transport Layer Security (TLS) and HTTP/2 to mitigate pervasive
monitoring attacks. This mechanism not a replacement for "https"
URIs; it is vulnerable to active attacks.
This document is a product of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis Working Group of the IETF.
EXPERIMENTAL: This memo defines an Experimental Protocol for the
Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any
kind. Discussion and suggestions for improvement are requested.
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