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RFC 6797
Title: HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS)
Author: J. Hodges, C. Jackson, A. Barth
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: November 2012
Mailbox: jeff.hod...@paypal.com,
collin.jack...@sv.cmu.edu,
i...@adambarth.com
Pages: 46
Characters: 103554
Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-websec-strict-transport-sec-14.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6797.txt
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.
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