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<front>

  <title>HTTP Conditional Requests</title>

  <author fullname="Roy T. Fielding" initials="R." surname="Fielding" role="editor">
    <organization>Adobe</organization>
    <address>
      <postal>
        <street>345 Park Ave</street>
        <city>San Jose</city>
        <region>CA</region>
        <code>95110</code>
        <country>USA</country>
      </postal>
      <email>fielding@gbiv.com</email>
      <uri>https://roy.gbiv.com/</uri>
    </address>
  </author>

  <author fullname="Mark Nottingham" initials="M." surname="Nottingham" role="editor">
    <organization>Fastly</organization>
    <address>
      <email>mnot@mnot.net</email>
      <uri>https://www.mnot.net/</uri>
    </address>
  </author>

  <author fullname="Julian F. Reschke" initials="J. F." surname="Reschke" role="editor">
    <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
    <address>
      <postal>
        <street>Hafenweg 16</street>
        <city>Muenster</city><region>NW</region><code>48155</code>
        <country>Germany</country>
      </postal>
      <email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email>
      <uri>https://greenbytes.de/tech/webdav/</uri>
    </address>
  </author>

  <date month="May" year="2018"/>

  <area>Applications and Real-Time</area>
  <workgroup>HTTP</workgroup>

  <keyword>Hypertext Transfer Protocol</keyword>
  <keyword>HTTP</keyword>
  <keyword>HTTP conditional requests</keyword>

<abstract>
<t>
   The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application-level protocol for
   distributed, collaborative, hypertext information systems. This document
   formerly defined HTTP conditional requests, which
   has since been moved to the core HTTP Semantics document.
</t>
</abstract>

<note title="Editorial Note" removeInRFC="true">
  <t>
    Discussion of this draft takes place on the HTTP working group
    mailing list (ietf-http-wg@w3.org), which is archived at
    <eref target="https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/ietf-http-wg/"/>.
  </t>
  <t>
    Working Group information can be found at <eref target="https://httpwg.org/"/>;
    source code and issues list for this draft can be found at
    <eref target="https://github.com/httpwg/http-core"/>.
  </t>
  <t>
    The changes in this draft are summarized in <xref target="changes.since.00"/>.
  </t>
</note>
</front>

<middle>
<section title="Introduction" anchor="introduction">
<t>
   Conditional requests are HTTP requests <xref target="Semantics"/> that include
   one or more header fields indicating a precondition to be tested before
   applying the method semantics to the target resource.
</t>
<t>
   The entire content of this document (previously in
   <xref target="RFC2616"/> and <xref target="RFC7232"/>)
   has been moved to <xref target="Semantics"/>.
</t>
</section>

</middle>
<back>

<references title="Normative References">

<reference anchor="Semantics">
  <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics-latest"/>
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    <x:has anchor="Semantics-conformance" target="conformance"/>
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</reference>

</references>

<references title="Informative References">

<reference anchor="RFC2616">
  <front>
    <title>Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</title>
    <author initials="R." surname="Fielding" fullname="R. Fielding">
      <organization>University of California, Irvine</organization>
      <address><email>fielding@ics.uci.edu</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Gettys" fullname="J. Gettys">
      <organization>W3C</organization>
      <address><email>jg@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="J." surname="Mogul" fullname="J. Mogul">
      <organization>Compaq Computer Corporation</organization>
      <address><email>mogul@wrl.dec.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="H." surname="Frystyk" fullname="H. Frystyk">
      <organization>MIT Laboratory for Computer Science</organization>
      <address><email>frystyk@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="L." surname="Masinter" fullname="L. Masinter">
      <organization>Xerox Corporation</organization>
      <address><email>masinter@parc.xerox.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="P." surname="Leach" fullname="P. Leach">
      <organization>Microsoft Corporation</organization>
      <address><email>paulle@microsoft.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author initials="T." surname="Berners-Lee" fullname="T. Berners-Lee">
      <organization>W3C</organization>
      <address><email>timbl@w3.org</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="June" year="1999"/>
  </front>
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<reference anchor="RFC7232">
  <front>
    <title>Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests</title>
    <author fullname="Roy T. Fielding" initials="R." role="editor" surname="Fielding">
      <organization>Adobe</organization>
      <address><email>fielding@gbiv.com</email></address>
    </author>
    <author fullname="Julian F. Reschke" initials="J. F." role="editor" surname="Reschke">
      <organization abbrev="greenbytes">greenbytes GmbH</organization>
      <address><email>julian.reschke@greenbytes.de</email></address>
    </author>
    <date month="June" year="2014"/>
  </front>
  <seriesInfo name="RFC" value="7232"/>
</reference>

</references>

<section title="Changes from RFC 7232" anchor="changes.since.00">
<t>
  All content has been moved to <xref target="Semantics"/>.
</t>
</section>

<section title="Acknowledgments" anchor="acks" numbered="false">
<t>
  See <xref target="Semantics" x:rel="#acks"/>.
</t>
</section>
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