RFC 7541: HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This specification defines HPACK, a compression format for efficiently representing HTTP header fields, to be used in HTTP/2.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC7541
- Published
- May 2015
- Authors
- R. Peon; H. Ruellan
- Status
- PROPOSED STANDARD
- Stream
- IETF
- Area
- wit
- Pages
- 55
- Also known as
- —
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