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The following are specifications for the web protocols supported by Tomcat.

HTTP, HTTP/2

HTTP 0.9

The Original HTTP as defined in 1991 at W3.org

HTTP/1.0

RFC 1945

HTTP/1.1

RFC 2068 (January 1997) - obsolete, replaced by 2616
RFC 2616 (June 1999) - obsolete, replaced by 7230...7235

RFC 7230 (June 2014) - Message Syntax and Routing
RFC 7231 (June 2014) - Semantics and Content
RFC 7232 (June 2014) - Conditional Requests
RFC 7233 (June 2014) - Range Requests
RFC 7234 (June 2014) - Caching
RFC 7235 (June 2014) - Authentication |

HTTP/2

RFC 7540 (May 2015) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
RFC 7541 (May 2015) - HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2

HTTP/2 home page, maintained by the IETF HTTPbis Working Group |

Related Specifications

RFC 2617

"HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication"
It covers BASIC and DIGEST authentication methods

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SPDY

TBD

SPDY protocol is obsolete, has been replaced by HTTP/2.

draft-mbelshe-httpbis-spdy-00 (Draft 3), Expires: August 4, 2012

List of protocol specifications, at dev.chromium.org

HTTP/2

HTTP/2 home page, maintained by the IETF HTTPbis Working Group

HTTP/2

RFC 7540 (May 2015) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Version 2 (HTTP/2)
RFC 7541 (May 2015) - HPACK: Header Compression for HTTP/2

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WebSocket

WebSocket protocol is specified by RFC 6455.

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