January 1997
HTTP/1.1 standardized
RFC 2068 defined HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./1.1 in January 1997 — adding persistent connections, chunked transfer, and better caching than HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./1.0.
What it was for
HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./1.1 is how browsers and APIs talk to servers — GET/POST requests, status codes, headers. Persistent connections cut latency; virtual hosts let one IPInternet Protocol — the addressing and routing layer that moves packets across networks. serve many domains. Every RESTRepresentational State Transfer — a style for web APIs using HTTP methods and resource URLs. APIApplication programming interface — a defined way for programs to talk to each other or to a service., CDN, and `fetch()` call still rides on HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages. semantics defined here and refined in later RFCs.
Companies
- IETF
Why it's here
HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./1.1 fixed the performance and proxy problems that limited HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./1.0 at web scale.
Why it mattered
It became the wire protocol underpinning the web, APIs, and eventually HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./2 and HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./3.
What it solved
HTTPHyperText Transfer Protocol — the protocol browsers use to request and receive web pages./1.0 opened a new TCPTransmission Control Protocol — a reliable, connection-oriented protocol used on the internet. connection per request and handled caching inconsistently.
Media
- ImageHTTP
IETF HTTP Working Group (HTTPbis), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- REST architectural style defined2000
- ARPANET switches to TCP/IPJanuary 1, 1983
- TLS 1.0 standardizedJanuary 1999
- WebSocket protocol standardizedDecember 2011
- HTTP/2 standardizedMay 14, 2015
- HTTP/3 standardizedJune 6, 2022
- DNS standardizedNovember 1983
- WorldWideWeb — first web browserDecember 1990
- URI syntax standardizedJune 1994
- HTML invented1991