RFC 7541

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RFC 7541 is the IETF specification that defines the HPACK header compression format used by HTTP/2 to efficiently encode HTTP header fields.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf IETF Request for Comments
addresses bandwidth reduction for HTTP/2 headers
compression efficiency for HTTP header fields
latency reduction for HTTP/2 header processing
appliesTo HTTP/2 clients
HTTP/2
surface form: HTTP/2 intermediaries

HTTP/2 servers
area Applications
category Standards Track
concerns HTTP header compression security considerations
defines HPACK
header compression for HTTP/2
definesAbbreviation HPACK
definesConcept Huffman coding for header fields
dynamic table
dynamic table size update
header field name
header field value
header table
indexed representation
literal header field never indexed
literal header field with indexing
literal header field without indexing
static table
format text
intendedFor implementers of HTTP/2
language English
obsoletedBy None
obsoletes None
publishedBy Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF

Internet Engineering Task Force
registry HPACK
surface form: IANA HPACK static table registry
relatedTo HTTP/2
HTTP/2 specification
RFC 7540
specifies HPACK header compression format
Huffman code for HTTP/2 header compression
binary format for compressed HTTP/2 header blocks
integer representation in HPACK
maximum size of the dynamic table
string literal representation in HPACK
standardizes encoding of HTTP header fields for HTTP/2
status Proposed Standard
stream Internet Engineering Task Force
surface form: IETF
title HPACK
surface form: HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2
updatesProtocol HTTP header compression
uses dynamic table of header fields
static table of header fields
workingGroup HTTP Working Group
surface form: Hypertext Transfer Protocol (httpbis)

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HTTP/2 definedInRFC RFC 7541
HPACK standardizedIn RFC 7541
RFC 7540 relatedSpecification RFC 7541