RFC Archive
WWW PROTOCOLS

Architechure and Discussion

Current

URL

Current

RFC 1630: Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW:
A Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web
RFC 1736: Functional Recommendations for Internet Resource Locators
RFC 1737: Functional Requirements for Uniform Resource Names
RFC 1738: Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
RFC 1808: Relative Uniform Resource Locators
RFC 1959: An LDAP URL Format
RFC 2016: Uniform Resource Agents (URAs)
RFC 2056: Uniform Resource Locators for Z39.50
RFC 2111: Content-ID and Message-ID Uniform Resource Locators
RFC 2122: VEMMI URL Specification
RFC 2141: URN Syntax
RFC 2168: Resolution of Uniform Resource Identifiers using the Domain Name System
RFC 2224: NFS URL Scheme
RFC 2276: Architectural Principles of Uniform Resource Name Resolution
RFC 2288: Using Existing Bibliographic Identifiers as Uniform Resource Names

Gopher

Current

RFC 1436: The Internet Gopher Protocol (a distributed document search and retrieval protocol)

HTTP

Current

RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
RFC 2069: An Extension to HTTP: Digest Access Authentication
RFC 2084: Considerations for Web Transaction Security
RFC 2109: HTTP State Management Mechanism
RFC 2145: Use and interpretation of HTTP version numbers
RFC 2169: A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution
RFC 2227: Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP
RFC 2291: Requirements for a Distributed Authoring and Versioning Protocol for the World Wide Web
RFC 2295: Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP
RFC 2296: HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm -- RVSA/1.0
RFC 2518: HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring

ICP

Current

Z39.50

Current

RFC 1625: WAIS over Z39.50-1988
RFC 1729: Using the Z39.50 Information Retrieval Protocol in the Internet Environment

HTML

Current

Drafts