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[appendix]
== HTTP and other specifications

This chapter intends to list all the specification documents
for or related to HTTP.

=== HTTP

==== IANA Registries

* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-methods/http-methods.xhtml[HTTP Method Registry]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-status-codes/http-status-codes.xhtml[HTTP Status Code Registry]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/message-headers.xhtml[Message Headers]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters/http-parameters.xhtml[HTTP Parameters]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-alt-svc-parameters/http-alt-svc-parameters.xhtml[HTTP Alt-Svc Parameter Registry]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-authschemes/http-authschemes.xhtml[HTTP Authentication Scheme Registry]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-cache-directives/http-cache-directives.xhtml[HTTP Cache Directive Registry]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-dig-alg/http-dig-alg.xhtml[HTTP Digest Algorithm Values]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/hoba-device-identifiers/hoba-device-identifiers.xhtml[HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication Device Identifier Types]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-upgrade-tokens/http-upgrade-tokens.xhtml[HTTP Upgrade Token Registry]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http-warn-codes/http-warn-codes.xhtml[HTTP Warn Codes]
* https://www.iana.org/assignments/http2-parameters/http2-parameters.xhtml[HTTP/2 Parameters]
* https://www.ietf.org/assignments/websocket/websocket.xml[WebSocket Protocol Registries]

==== Current

* http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/[CORS]: Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
* http://www.w3.org/TR/CSP2/[CSP2]: Content Security Policy Level 2
* http://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-dnt/[DNT]: Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)
* http://www.w3.org/TR/eventsource/[eventsource]: Server-Sent Events
* https://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.13.4[Form content types]: Form content types
* https://www.w3.org/TR/preload/[Preload]: Preload
* https://www.haproxy.org/download/1.8/doc/proxy-protocol.txt[PROXY]: The PROXY protocol
* http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm[REST]: Fielding's Dissertation
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945[RFC 1945]: HTTP/1.0
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1951[RFC 1951]: DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification version 1.3
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1952[RFC 1952]: GZIP file format specification version 4.3
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2046#section-5.1[RFC 2046]: Multipart media type (in MIME Part Two: Media Types)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2295[RFC 2295]: Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2296[RFC 2296]: HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm: RVSA/1.0
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2817[RFC 2817]: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2818[RFC 2818]: HTTP Over TLS
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3230[RFC 3230]: Instance Digests in HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4559[RFC 4559]: SPNEGO-based Kerberos and NTLM HTTP Authentication in Microsoft Windows
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5789[RFC 5789]: PATCH Method for HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5843[RFC 5843]: Additional Hash Algorithms for HTTP Instance Digests
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5861[RFC 5861]: HTTP Cache-Control Extensions for Stale Content
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5988[RFC 5988]: Web Linking
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6265[RFC 6265]: HTTP State Management Mechanism
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6266[RFC 6266]: Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6454[RFC 6454]: The Web Origin Concept
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6455[RFC 6455]: The WebSocket Protocol
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6585[RFC 6585]: Additional HTTP Status Codes
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6750[RFC 6750]: The OAuth 2.0 Authorization Framework: Bearer Token Usage
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6797[RFC 6797]: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6903[RFC 6903]: Additional Link Relation Types
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7034[RFC 7034]: HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7089[RFC 7089]: Time-Based Access to Resource States: Memento
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7230[RFC 7230]: HTTP/1.1 Message Syntax and Routing
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7231[RFC 7231]: HTTP/1.1 Semantics and Content
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7232[RFC 7232]: HTTP/1.1 Conditional Requests
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7233[RFC 7233]: HTTP/1.1 Range Requests
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7234[RFC 7234]: HTTP/1.1 Caching
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7235[RFC 7235]: HTTP/1.1 Authentication
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7239[RFC 7239]: Forwarded HTTP Extension
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7240[RFC 7240]: Prefer Header for HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7469[RFC 7469]: Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7486[RFC 7486]: HTTP Origin-Bound Authentication (HOBA)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7538[RFC 7538]: HTTP Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7540[RFC 7540]: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7541[RFC 7541]: HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7578[RFC 7578]: Returning Values from Forms: multipart/form-data
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7615[RFC 7615]: HTTP Authentication-Info and Proxy-Authentication-Info Response Header Fields
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7616[RFC 7616]: HTTP Digest Access Authentication
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7617[RFC 7617]: The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7639[RFC 7639]: The ALPN HTTP Header Field
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7692[RFC 7692]: Compression Extensions for WebSocket
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7694[RFC 7694]: HTTP Client-Initiated Content-Encoding
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7725[RFC 7725]: An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7804[RFC 7804]: Salted Challenge Response HTTP Authentication Mechanism
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7838[RFC 7838]: HTTP Alternative Services
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7932[RFC 7932]: Brotli Compressed Data Format
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7936[RFC 7936]: Clarifying Registry Procedures for the WebSocket Subprotocol Name Registry
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8053[RFC 8053]: HTTP Authentication Extensions for Interactive Clients
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8164[RFC 8164]: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8187[RFC 8187]: Indicating Character Encoding and Language for HTTP Header Field Parameters
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8188[RFC 8188]: Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8246[RFC 8246]: HTTP Immutable Responses
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8297[RFC 8297]: An HTTP Status Code for Indicating Hints
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8336[RFC 8336]: The ORIGIN HTTP/2 Frame
* https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/[Webmention]: Webmention

==== Upcoming

* https://www.w3.org/TR/clear-site-data/[Clear Site Data]
* https://www.w3.org/TR/csp-cookies/[Content Security Policy: Cookie Controls]
* https://www.w3.org/TR/csp-embedded-enforcement/[Content Security Policy: Embedded Enforcement]
* https://www.w3.org/TR/CSP3/[Content Security Policy Level 3]
* https://www.w3.org/TR/csp-pinning/[Content Security Policy Pinning]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/referrer-policy/[Referrer Policy]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/UISecurity/[User Interface Security Directives for Content Security Policy]

==== Informative

* http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/[Architecture of the World Wide Web]
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2936[RFC 2936]: HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2964[RFC 2964]: Use of HTTP State Management
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3143[RFC 3143]: Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6202[RFC 6202]: Known Issues and Best Practices for the Use of Long Polling and Streaming in Bidirectional HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6838[RFC 6838]: Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7478[RFC 7478]: Web Real-Time Communication Use Cases and Requirements

==== Related

* http://www.w3.org/TR/app-uri/[app: URL Scheme]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/beacon/[Beacon]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/FileAPI/[File API]
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8030[Generic Event Delivery Using HTTP Push]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/capability-urls/[Good Practices for Capability URLs]
* https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/[HTML Living Standard]
* https://developers.whatwg.org/[HTML Living Standard for Web developers]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/[HTML4.01]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/[HTML5]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/html51/[HTML5.1]
* https://www.w3.org/TR/html52/[HTML5.2]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags/[Media Fragments URI 1.0]
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6690[RFC 6690]: Constrained RESTful Environments (CoRE) Link Format
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7807[RFC 7807]: Problem Details for HTTP APIs
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6906[RFC 6906]: The 'profile' Link Relation Type
* http://www.w3.org/TR/SRI/[Subresource Integrity]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/tracking-compliance/[Tracking Compliance and Scope]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/media-frags-reqs/[Use cases and requirements for Media Fragments]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/[WebRTC 1.0: Real-time Communication Between Browsers]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/websockets/[Websocket API]
* http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/[XMLHttpRequest Level 1]
* https://xhr.spec.whatwg.org/[XMLHttpRequest Living Standard]

==== Seemingly obsolete

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2227[RFC 2227]: Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2310[RFC 2310]: The Safe Response Header Field
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2324[RFC 2324]: Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2660[RFC 2660]: The Secure HyperText Transfer Protocol
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2774[RFC 2774]: An HTTP Extension Framework
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2965[RFC 2965]: HTTP State Management Mechanism (Cookie2)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3229[RFC 3229]: Delta encoding in HTTP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7168[RFC 7168]: The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA)
* http://dev.chromium.org/spdy/spdy-protocol[SPDY]: SPDY Protocol
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tyoshino-hybi-websocket-perframe-deflate-06[x-webkit-deflate-frame]: Deprecated Websocket compression

=== URL

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986[RFC 3986]: URI Generic Syntax
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6570[RFC 6570]: URI Template
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6874[RFC 6874]: Representing IPv6 Zone Identifiers in Address Literals and URIs
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7320[RFC 7320]: URI Design and Ownership
* http://www.w3.org/TR/url-1/[URL]
* https://url.spec.whatwg.org/[URL Living Standard]

=== WebDAV

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3253[RFC 3253]: Versioning Extensions to WebDAV
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3648[RFC 3648]: WebDAV Ordered Collections Protocol
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3744[RFC 3744]: WebDAV Access Control Protocol
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4316[RFC 4316]: Datatypes for WebDAV Properties
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4331[RFC 4331]: Quota and Size Properties for DAV Collections
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4437[RFC 4437]: WebDAV Redirect Reference Resources
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4709[RFC 4709]: Mounting WebDAV Servers
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4791[RFC 4791]: Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4918[RFC 4918]: HTTP Extensions for WebDAV
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5323[RFC 5323]: WebDAV SEARCH
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5397[RFC 5397]: WebDAV Current Principal Extension
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5689[RFC 5689]: Extended MKCOL for WebDAV
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5842[RFC 5842]: Binding Extensions to WebDAV
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5995[RFC 5995]: Using POST to Add Members to WebDAV Collections
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6352[RFC 6352]: CardDAV: vCard Extensions to WebDAV
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6578[RFC 6578]: Collection Synchronization for WebDAV
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6638[RFC 6638]: Scheduling Extensions to CalDAV
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc6764[RFC 6764]: Locating Services for Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV) and vCard Extensions to WebDAV (CardDAV)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7809[RFC 7809]: Calendaring Extensions to WebDAV (CalDAV): Time Zones by Reference
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7953[RFC 7953]: Calendar Availability
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8144[RFC 8144]: Use of the Prefer Header Field in WebDAV

=== CoAP

* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7252[RFC 7252]: The Constrained Application Protocol (CoAP)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7390[RFC 7390]: Group Communication for CoAP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7641[RFC 7641]: Observing Resources in CoAP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7650[RFC 7650]: A CoAP Usage for REsource LOcation And Discovery (RELOAD)
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7959[RFC 7959]: Block-Wise Transfers in CoAP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7967[RFC 7967]: CoAP Option for No Server Response
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8075[RFC 8075]: Guidelines for Mapping Implementations: HTTP to CoAP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8132[RFC 8132]: PATCH and FETCH Methods for CoAP
* https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8323[RFC 8323]: CoAP over TCP, TLS, and WebSockets