rfc-8164

Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2

M. Nottingham, M. Thomson
date2017-05 streamIETF areawit wghttpbis statusHISTORIC pages10 canonicalhttps://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc8164 doi10.17487/RFC8164 errataview
This document describes how "http" URIs can be accessed using Transport Layer Security (TLS) and HTTP/2 to mitigate pervasive monitoring attacks. This mechanism not a replacement for "https" URIs; it is vulnerable to active attacks.