RFC 7540

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RFC 7540 is the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standard that defines HTTP/2, the major revision of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol designed to improve web performance and efficiency.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Internet standard
Request for Comments
Technical specification
appliesTo HTTP clients
HTTP intermediaries
HTTP servers
area Applications
bcp14KeywordsUsed MUST, SHOULD, MAY as defined in RFC 2119
binaryFramingLayer Yes
category Standards Track
defines HTTP/2
surface form: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2
definesConcept Flow-control window
HTTP/2 connection
HTTP/2 frame
HTTP/2 stream
Prioritization tree
Stream identifiers
definesProtocol HTTP/2
definesVersion HTTP version 2.0
headerCompressionMechanism HPACK
intendedUse General Internet
introducesFeature Flow control
Header compression
Server push
Stream multiplexing
Stream prioritization
keeps HTTP URIs from HTTP/1.1
HTTP methods from HTTP/1.1
HTTP status codes from HTTP/1.1
language English
maintainsSemanticsOf HTTP/1.1
obsoletes RFC 2616 (partially)
primaryGoal Enable multiplexing over a single connection
Improve HTTP efficiency
Improve web performance
Reduce latency
publicationDate May 2015
publishedBy Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force
relatedSpecification HPACK
surface form: HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2

RFC 7541
relationshipTo Based in part on SPDY protocol
rfcNumber 7540
securityConsiderationsDocumentedIn Section 10
status Proposed Standard
stream Standards Track
title HTTP/2
surface form: Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
updates HTTP/1.1 specification behavior (semantics preserved)
usesUnderlyingTransport Transmission Control Protocol
surface form: TCP
workingGroup HTTP/2
surface form: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (httpbis)

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RFC 7541 relatedTo RFC 7540
SPDY influenced RFC 7540
this entity surface form: RFC 7540 (HTTP/2 specification)
HTTP Working Group responsibleFor RFC 7540
this entity surface form: HTTP/2 specification
RFC 9205 updates RFC 7540