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IETF RFC 6797

HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)

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Organization: IETF
Publication Date: 1 November 2012
Status: active
Page Count: 43
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This specification defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections and/or for users to be able to direct their user agent(s) to interact with given sites only over secure connections. This overall policy is referred to as HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS). The policy is declared by web sites via the Strict-Transport-Security HTTP response header field and/or by other means, such as user agent configuration, for example.

Document History

IETF RFC 6797
November 1, 2012
HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
This specification defines a mechanism enabling web sites to declare themselves accessible only via secure connections and/or for users to be able to direct their user agent(s) to interact with given...

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