RFC 6202: Known Issues and Best Practices for the Use of Long Polling and Streaming in Bidirectional HTTP

On today's Internet, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is often used (some would say abused) to enable asynchronous, "server- initiated" communication…

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Outgoing relationships (6 related RFCs)

Normative reference — RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Normative reference — RFC 4732: Internet Denial-of-Service Considerations
Normative reference — RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
Informative reference — RFC 793: Transmission Control Protocol
Informative reference — RFC 6120: Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP): Core
Informative reference — RFC 4627: The application/json Media Type for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)

Incoming relationships (2 related RFCs)

Informatively referenced by — RFC 7641: Observing Resources in the Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 8936: Poll-Based Security Event Token (SET) Delivery Using HTTP