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Appendices

A. Internet Media Type message/http

In addition to defining the HTTP/1.0 protocol, this document serves as the specification for the Internet media type "message/http". The following is to be registered with IANA [15].

Media Type name:
message

Media subtype name:
http

Required parameters:
none

Optional parameters:
version, type

version:The HTTP-Version number of the enclosed message (e.g. "1.0"). If not present, the version can be determined from the first line of the body.

type:The message type -- "request" or "response". If not present, the type can be determined from the first line of the body.

Encoding considerations:
only "7bit", "8bit", or "binary" are permitted

Security considerations:
none

T. Berners-Lee, R. T. Fielding, H. Frystyk Nielsen - 12 MAR 95

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