HTTP Usage in the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP)
Andrew Newton, Byron Ellacott, Ning Kong · 2015
This document is one of a collection that together describes the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP). It describes how RDAP is transported using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). RDAP is a successor protocol to the very old WHOIS protocol. The purpose of this document is to clarify the use of standard HTTP mechanisms for this application.