Building Protocols with HTTP

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Publisher: IETF
Doc Type: Best Practice
Pages: 27
Abstract: Applications often use HTTP as a substrate to create HTTP-based APIs. This document specifies best practices for writing specifications that use HTTP to define new application protocols. It is written primarily to guide IETF efforts to define application protocols using HTTP for deployment on the Internet but might be applicable in other situations. This document obsoletes RFC 3205.
Publication Date: 2022-06-01
Status Note: Best Current Practice
DOI: 10.17487/RFC9205
Link: https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC9205
Author(s): Mark Nottingham
Keyword(s): HTTP API

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IETF RFC 2119 [Active*]
IETF RFC 3986 [Active, Amended*]
IETF RFC 6454 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6648 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6838 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8174 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8288 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8615 [Active*]
IETF RFC 8820 [Active*]
RFC8941 — RFC8941 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 9110 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9111 [Active*]

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IETF RFC 3205 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 4791 [Active*]
IETF RFC 4918 [Active*]
IETF RFC 5861 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6265 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6415 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6570 [Active*]
IETF RFC 6797 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7258 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7301 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7595 [Active*]
RFC7605 — RFC7605 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 7616 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7617 [Active*]
IETF RFC 7807 [Superseded*]
IETF RFC 8259 [Active*]
RFC8297 — RFC8297 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 8446 [Superseded*]
RFC8470 — RFC8470 EXTERNAL
IETF RFC 8949 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9112 [Active*]
IETF RFC 9113 [Active*]
RFC9114 — RFC9114 EXTERNAL
RFC9218 — RFC9218 EXTERNAL
W3C.CR-referrer-policy.20170126 — REFERRER-POLICY EXTERNAL
W3C.CRD-secure-contexts.20210918 — SECCTXT EXTERNAL
W3C.WD-csp3.20210629 — CSP EXTERNAL
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IETF RFC 10003 [Active*]
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