RFC 9205: Building Protocols with HTTP

Applications often use HTTP as a substrate to create HTTP-based APIs. This document specifies best practices for writing specifications that use HTTP to…

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Outgoing relationships (30 related RFCs)

Obsoletes, Informative reference — RFC 3205: On the use of HTTP as a Substrate
Normative reference — RFC 2119: Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement Levels
Normative reference — RFC 8174: Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC 2119 Key Words
Normative reference — RFC 6838: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
Normative reference — RFC 6454: The Web Origin Concept
Normative reference — RFC 8615: Well-Known Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs)
Normative reference — RFC 8288: Web Linking
Normative reference — RFC 6648: Deprecating the "X-" Prefix and Similar Constructs in Application Protocols
Normative reference — RFC 8941: Structured Field Values for HTTP
Informative reference — RFC 8446: The Transport Layer Security (TLS) Protocol Version 1.3
Informative reference — RFC 7258: Pervasive Monitoring Is an Attack
Informative reference — RFC 8949: Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)
Informative reference — RFC 6265: HTTP State Management Mechanism
Informative reference — RFC 7301: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation Extension
Informative reference — RFC 9113: HTTP/2
Informative reference — RFC 4918: HTTP Extensions for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV)
Informative reference — RFC 9114: HTTP/3
Informative reference — RFC 4791: Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)
Informative reference — RFC 6570: URI Template
Informative reference — RFC 7616: HTTP Digest Access Authentication
Informative reference — RFC 7617: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
Informative reference — RFC 6797: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
Informative reference — RFC 7595: Guidelines and Registration Procedures for URI Schemes
Informative reference — RFC 7807: Problem Details for HTTP APIs
Informative reference — RFC 5861: HTTP Cache-Control Extensions for Stale Content
Informative reference — RFC 8470: Using Early Data in HTTP
Informative reference — RFC 7605: Recommendations on Using Assigned Transport Port Numbers
Informative reference — RFC 9218: Extensible Prioritization Scheme for HTTP
Informative reference — RFC 8297: An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints
Informative reference — RFC 6415: Web Host Metadata

Incoming relationships (3 related RFCs)

Normatively referenced by — RFC 10003: Certificate Management over CMS (CMC): Transport Protocols
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9569: The Application-Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) Transport Information Publication Service (TIPS)
Informatively referenced by — RFC 9996: Media Types for Protocol Buffers