Ko te whanaketanga o ngā paerewa HTTP i whakaritea e te Rōpū Mahi Hangarau Ipurangi (IETF) me te World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), ka mutu ki te whakaputanga o te raupapa o ngā Tono mo ngā kōrero (RFCs). I puta te tautuhinga tuatahi o HTTP/1.1, te putanga o HTTP e whakamahia ana i te nuinga o te wā, i roto i te RFC 2068 i te tau 1997, ahakoa i whakakorehia tenei e RFC 2616 i te tau 1999 me te whanau RFC 7230 o RFCs i te tau 2014.
Te Rōpū Mahi Hangarau Ipurangi (IETF) me te World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)