draft-elson-icap

Last Version:	draft-elson-icap-01.txt		Tracker Entry
Date:	29-Mar-2004
Disposition:	RFC3507 (diff)
Previous Versions:	draft-elson-icap-01.txt (diff)    - 15-Apr-2003
	draft-elson-icap-00.txt (diff)    - 08-Jun-2002

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        RFC 3507

        Title:      Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP)
        Author(s):  J. Elson, A. Cerpa
        Status:     Informational
        Date:       April 2003
        Mailbox:    jelson@cs.ucla.edu, cerpa@cs.ucla.edu
        Pages:      49
        Characters: 98772
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:  None

        I-D Tag:    draft-elson-icap-01.txt

        URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3507.txt


ICAP, the Internet Content Adaption Protocol, is a protocol aimed
at providing simple object-based content vectoring for HTTP
services.  ICAP is, in essence, a lightweight protocol for
executing a "remote procedure call" on HTTP messages.  It allows ICAP
clients to pass HTTP messages to ICAP servers for some sort of
transformation or other processing ("adaptation").  The server
executes its transformation service on messages and sends back
responses to the client, usually with modified messages.  Typically,
the adapted messages are either HTTP requests or HTTP responses.

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