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Welcome to the RFC section of this site. I have collected a few
RFC’s that I thought may be useful to some people. No I haven’t
read all of these I have a life 🙂

If I have left out something contact us to let us know

RFC 1867: Form-based File Upload in HTML

RFC 1945: Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.0

RFC 2045: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

RFC 2046: Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types

RFC 2047: MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text

RFC 2068: Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1

RFC 2069: An Extension to HTTP : Digest Access Authentication

RFC 2084: Considerations for Web Transaction Security

RFC 2109: HTTP State Management Mechanism

RFC 2145: Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers

RFC 2169: A Trivial Convention for using HTTP in URN Resolution

RFC 2186: Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2

RFC 2183: Communicating Presentation Information in Internet Messages:The Content-Disposition Header Field

RFC 2187: Application of Internet Cache Protocol (ICP), version 2

RFC 2227: Simple Hit-Metering and Usage-Limiting for HTTP

RFC 2246: The TLS Protocol Version 1.0

RFC 2279: UTF-8, a transformation format of ISO 10646 AKA Unicode

RFC 2295: Transparent Content Negotiation in HTTP

RFC 2296: HTTP Remote Variant Selection Algorithm — RVSA/1.0

RFC 2388: Returning Values from Forms:  multipart/form-data

RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax

RFC 2397: The "data" URL schem

RFC 2518: HTTP Extensions for Distributed Authoring — WEBDAV

RFC 2585: Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Operational Protocols: FTP and HTTP

RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1

RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication

RFC 2756: Hyper Text Caching Protocol (HTCP/0.0)

RFC 2774: An HTTP Extension Framework

RFC 2807: XML Signature Requirements

RFC 2817: Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1

RFC 2818: HTTP Over TLS

RFC 2828: Internet Security Glossary

RFC 2935: Internet Open Trading Protocol (IOTP) HTTP Supplement

RFC 2936: HTTP MIME Type Handler Detection

RFC 2964: Use of HTTP State Management

RFC 2965: HTTP State Management Mechanism

RFC 3023: XML Media Types

RFC 3040: Internet Web Replication and Caching Taxonomy

RFC 3076: Canonical XML Version 1.0

RFC 3143: Known HTTP Proxy/Caching Problems

RFC 3229: Delta encoding in HTTP

RFC 3230: Instance Digests in HTTP

RFC 3236: The ‘application/xhtml+xml’ Media Type

RFC 3253: Versioning Extensions to WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning)

RFC 3268: Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) Ciphersuites for Transport Layer

RFC 3275: (Extensible Markup Language) XML-Signature Syntax and Processing

RFC 3288: Using the Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) in Blocks Extensible Exchange Protocol (BEEP)