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RFC 7230: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing

This RFC has been replaced. Do not implement against it for new work — it was formally obsoleted by RFC 9110, RFC 9112.

Current document in this lineage: RFC 7616 — HTTP Digest Access Authentication; RFC 7617 — The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme; RFC 9110 — HTTP Semantics; RFC 9111 — HTTP Caching; RFC 9112 — HTTP/1.1

In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document provides an overview of HTTP architecture and its associated terminology, defines the "http" and "https" Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) schemes, defines the HTTP/1.1 message syntax and parsing requirements, and describes related security concerns for implementations.

Document record

Document ID
RFC7230
Published
June 2014
Authors
R. Fielding; J. Reschke
Status
PROPOSED STANDARD
Stream
IETF
Area
wit
Pages
89
Also known as
—
Obsoletes:
RFC 2145, RFC 2616
Obsoleted by:
RFC 9110, RFC 9112
Updates:
RFC 2817, RFC 2818
Updated by:
RFC 8615

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Standards lineage

This document is one revision in a chain of 21 RFCs, each formally replacing the one before it.

  1. RFC 2068 (1997)
  2. RFC 2069 (1997)
  3. RFC 2145 (1997)
  4. RFC 2616 (1999)
  5. RFC 2617 (1999)
  6. RFC 2818 (2000)
  7. RFC 7230 (2014)
  8. RFC 7231 (2014)
  9. RFC 7232 (2014)
  10. RFC 7233 (2014)
  11. RFC 7234 (2014)
  12. RFC 7235 (2014)
  13. RFC 7238 (2014)
  14. RFC 7538 (2015)
  15. RFC 7615 (2015)
  16. RFC 7616 (2015)
  17. RFC 7617 (2015)
  18. RFC 7694 (2015)
  19. RFC 9110 (2022)
  20. RFC 9111 (2022)
  21. RFC 9112 (2022) ✓

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3 later RFCs formally update or obsolete part of this document.

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