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<reference anchor='RFC1945'>

<front>
<title abbrev='HTTP/1.0'>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0</title>
<author initials='T.' surname='Berners-Lee' fullname='Tim Berners-Lee'>
<organization>MIT, Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>545 Technology Square</street>
<city>Cambridge</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>02139</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<facsimile>+1 617 258 8682</facsimile>
<email>timbl@w3.org</email></address></author>
<author initials='R.T.' surname='Fielding' fullname='Roy T. Fielding'>
<organization>University of California, Irvine, Department of Information and Computer Science</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street />
<city>Irvine</city>
<region>CA</region>
<code>92717-3425</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<facsimile>+1 714 824 4056</facsimile>
<email>fielding@ics.uci.edu</email></address></author>
<author initials='H.F.' surname='Nielsen' fullname='Henrik Frystyk Nielsen'>
<organization>W3 Consortium, MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
<address>
<postal>
<street>545 Technology Square</street>
<city>Cambridge</city>
<region>MA</region>
<code>02139</code>
<country>US</country></postal>
<facsimile>+1 617 258 8682</facsimile>
<email>frystyk@w3.org</email></address></author>
<date month='May' year='1996' />
<abstract>
<t>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, object-oriented protocol which can be used for many tasks, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods (commands). A feature of HTTP is the typing of data representation, allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred.</t>
<t>HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global information initiative since 1990. This specification reflects common usage of the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.0".</t></abstract></front>

<seriesInfo name='RFC' value='1945' />
</reference>
