RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. [STANDARDS-TRACK]

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Outgoing relationships (24 related RFCs)

Informative reference — RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies
Informative reference — RFC 822: STANDARD FOR THE FORMAT OF ARPA INTERNET TEXT MESSAGES
Informative reference — RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text
Informative reference — RFC 959: File Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
Informative reference — RFC 1305: Network Time Protocol (Version 3) Specification, Implementation and Analysis
Informative reference — RFC 2048: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures
Informative reference — RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
Informative reference — RFC 1766: Tags for the Identification of Languages
Informative reference — RFC 1951: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
Informative reference — RFC 1866: Hypertext Markup Language - 2.0
Informative reference — RFC 1737: Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names
Informative reference — RFC 977: Network News Transfer Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 1950: ZLIB Compressed Data Format Specification version 3.3
Informative reference — RFC 1952: GZIP file format specification version 4.3
Informative reference — RFC 1036: Standard for interchange of USENET messages
Informative reference — RFC 1436: The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)
Informative reference — RFC 1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators
Informative reference — RFC 1900: Renumbering Needs Work
Informative reference — RFC 1630: Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW: A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web
Informative reference — RFC 2069: An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 850: Standard for interchange of USENET messages
Informative reference — RFC 1864: The Content-MD5 Header Field
Informative reference — RFC 1867: Form-based File Upload in HTML

Incoming relationships (29 related RFCs)

Obsoleted by, Informatively referenced by — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Normatively referenced by — RFC 7237: Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
Informatively referenced by — RFC 7231: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2560: X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5988: Web Linking
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2585: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2533: A Syntax for Describing Media Feature Sets
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2565: Internet Printing Protocol/1.0: Encoding and Transport
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5789: PATCH Method for HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 6648: Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2069: An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2295: Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2414: Increasing TCP's Initial Window
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2506: Media Feature Tag Registration Procedure
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2324: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 5126: CMS Advanced Electronic Signatures (CAdES)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8170: Planning for Protocol Adoption and Subsequent Transitions
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2592: Definitions of Managed Objects for the Delegation of Management Script
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2896: Remote Network Monitoring MIB Protocol Identifier Macros
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2291: Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2296: HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2626: The Internet and the Millennium Problem (Year 2000)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2774: An HTTP Extension Framework
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2122: VEMMI URL Specification
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2310: The Safe Response Header Field
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2318: The text/css Media Type
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2552: Architecture for the Information Brokerage in the ACTS Project GAIA
Informatively referenced by — RFC 2594: Definitions of Managed Objects for WWW Services