Internet Draft 06 of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 document is available. It reflects the state of discussions as of Wednesday, July 3, 1996. It differs in one significant way from draft 05: the accept header syntax was broken and had to be fixed; this was discovered during the IETF Last Call period. It was replaced by Internet Draft 07 of August 12, which differs only from Draft 06 to fix minor problems of an editorial nature, and which was approved for proposed standard in late August.
Internet Draft 05 of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 document is available. This draft was the first draft submitted to the IESG for Proposed Standard, and was replaced by Drafts 06 and 07 in response to Last Call comments. It reflects the state of discussions as of Friday, June 7, 1996.
Internet Draft 04 of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 document is available. It reflects the state of discussions as of Monday, June 3.
It is available in the following formats:
An HTML version is not yet available.
Editor's note: This version of the draft is quite ragged, as it represents the first time that the functionality has been merged in one place; it needs reorganization, rewrite of new material, and redefinition of some of the terminology. It will be superceeded soon by one which has had some real editing.
The specification review materials are available at the HTTP-WG Archives and at W3C in the following formats:
can be looked at. The Word version is most useful; you'll find annotations to indicate why edits were made (or can work from an issue back to the changes); if Word isn't available to you, you'll find the Postscript nearly as useful, with both change bars and strikeouts and underlines for replacement text.
It has been written by Roy T. Fielding, Henrik Frystyk Nielsen, and Tim Berners-Lee.
The specification is available in the following formats:
The seventh (and last) release of the HTTP/1.0 spec is available. This specification became an Internet Informational RFC, which has now been issued (RFC 1945). No standards track activity will occur with HTTP/1.0. The authors are Tim Berners-Lee, Roy T. Fielding, and Henrik Frystyk Nielsen on behalf of the IETF HTTP working group.
Discussion of HTTP/1.0 are available at the HTTP-WG Archives and at W3C in the following formats:
The original HTTP protocol did not use any resource metainformation and could be described in just a few pages. It was abandoned when it became clear that we wanted to serve more than just HTML on the Web.
The only documentation for early versions of the HTTP/1.0 protocol
consisted of a discussion draft in HTML form, written by Tim Berners-Lee
and later updated by Ari Luotonen
and a host of characters on www-talk.
This documentation is available for historical reasons only, since
it has long since been replaced by the Internet Drafts, Informational RFC, and now Standard track documents,
and does not reflect current practice among WWW applications.