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RFC 7232
Title: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional
Requests
Author: R. Fielding, Ed.,
J. Reschke, Ed.
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: June 2014
Mailbox: fielding@gbiv.com,
julian.reschke@greenbytes.de
Pages: 28
Characters: 56696
Obsoletes: RFC 2616
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-26.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc7232.txt
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-
level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information
systems. This document defines HTTP/1.1 conditional requests,
including metadata header fields for indicating state changes,
request header fields for making preconditions on such state, and
rules for constructing the responses to a conditional request when
one or more preconditions evaluate to false.
This document is a product of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis Working Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard.
STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions
for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet
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