Submission of draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-rev-04.txt has occurred.
Jim Gettys (jg@pa.dec.com)
Wed, 29 Jul 1998 08:48:57 -0700
Rev04 is available in the usual place (off the issues list
page). Thank you all for your help.
Jim Gettys
HTTP/1.1 editor.
Abstract
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol
for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a
generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks, such as
name servers and distributed object management systems, through
extension of its request methods. A feature of HTTP is the typing and
negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be built
independently of the data being transferred.
HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information initiative
since 1990. This specification defines the protocol referred to as
"HTTP/1.1", and is an update to RFC2068 [33].
At the time of submission, there were no remaining outstanding issues
after a working group last call. The HTTP/1.1 issues list can be found
at http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Issues/. Linked from this page are
also Postscript and Microsoft Word versions (with versions with change
bars) of this document which are easier to review than this text
document.
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Jim Gettys
Digital Industry Standards and Consortia
Compaq Computer Corporation
Visting Scientist, World Wide Web Consortium, M.I.T.
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