Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0

Table of Contents

Status of this Memo

Abstract

Table of Contents

1. - Introduction

1.1 - Purpose

1.2 - Overall Operation

1.3 - Terminology

2. - Notational Conventions and Generic Grammar

2.1 - Augmented BNF

2.2 - Basic Rules

3. - Protocol Parameters

3.1 - HTTP Version

3.2 - Universal Resource Identifiers

3.3 - Date/Time Formats

3.3.1 - Full Date

3.3.2 - Delta Seconds

4. - HTTP Message

4.1 - Message Types

4.2 - Message Headers

4.3 - General Message Header Fields

4.3.1 - Date

4.3.2 - Forwarded

4.3.3 - Message-ID

4.3.4 - MIME-Version

5. - Request

5.1 - Request-Line

5.2 - Method

5.2.1 - GET

5.2.2 - HEAD

5.2.3 - POST

5.2.4 - PUT

5.2.5 - DELETE

5.2.6 - LINK

5.2.7 - UNLINK

5.3 - Request-URI

5.4 - Request Header Fields

5.4.1 - Accept

5.4.2 - Accept-Charset

5.4.3 - Accept-Encoding

5.4.4 - Accept-Language

5.4.5 - Authorization

5.4.6 - From

5.4.7 - If-Modified-Since

5.4.8 - Pragma

5.4.9 - Referer

5.4.10 - User-Agent

6. - Response

6.1 - Status-Line

6.2 - Status Codes and Reason Phrases

6.2.1 - Successful 2xx

200 OK

201 Created

202 Accepted

203 Provisional Information

204 No Content

6.2.2 - Redirection 3xx

300 Multiple Choices

301 Moved Permanently

302 Moved Temporarily

303 Method

304 Not Modified

6.2.3 - Client Error 4xx

400 Bad Request

401 Unauthorized

402 Payment Required

403 Forbidden

404 Not Found

405 Method Not Allowed

406 None Acceptable

407 Proxy Authentication Required

408 Request Timeout

409 Conflict

410 Gone

6.2.4 - Server Errors 5xx

500 Internal Server Error

501 Not Implemented

502 Bad Gateway

503 Service Unavailable

504 Gateway Timeout

6.3 - Response Header Fields

6.3.1 - Public

6.3.2 - Retry-After

6.3.3 - Server

6.3.4 - WWW-Authenticate

7. - Entity

7.1 - Entity Header Fields

7.1.1 - Allow

7.1.2 - Content-Encoding

7.1.3 - Content-Language

7.1.4 - Content-Length

7.1.5 - Content-Transfer-Encoding

7.1.6 - Content-Type

7.1.7 - Derived-From

7.1.8 - Expires

7.1.9 - Last-Modified

7.1.10 - Link

7.1.11 - Location

7.1.12 - Title

7.1.13 - URI

7.1.14 - Version

7.2 - Entity Body

7.2.1 - Type

7.2.2 - Length

8. - Content Parameters

8.1 - Media Types

8.1.1 - Canonicalization and Text Defaults

8.1.2 - Multipart Types

8.2 - Language Tags

8.3 - Character Sets

8.4 - Encoding Mechanisms

8.5 - Transfer Encodings

9. - Content Negotiation

10. - Access Authentication

10.1 - Basic Authentication Scheme

11. - Security Considerations

11.1 - Authentication of Clients

11.2 - Idempotent Methods

11.3 - Abuse of Server Log Information

12. - Acknowledgments

13. - References

14. - Authors' Addresses

Appendices

A. - Internet Media Type message/http

B. - Minimum Compliance

B.1 - Servers

C. - Tolerant Applications

C.1 - Request-Line, Status-Line, and Header Fields

D. - Relationship to MIME

D.1 - Conversion to Canonical Form

D.1.1 - Representation of Line Breaks

D.1.2 - Default Character Set

D.2 - Default Content-Transfer-Encoding

D.3 - Introduction of Content-Encoding

E. - Example of Version Control

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