RFC1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.01996 RFC
- Authors:
- T. Berners-Lee,
- R. Fielding,
- H. Frystyk
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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, object-oriented protocol which can be used for many tasks, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods (commands). A feature of HTTP is the typing of data representation, allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred.
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