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GraphQL over HTTP

Introduction

HTTP is the most common choice as the client-server protocol when using GraphQL
because of its ubiquity. However the
GraphQL specification deliberately
does not specify the transport layer.

The closest thing to an official specification is the article
Serving over HTTP. Leading
implementations on both client and server have mostly upheld those best
practices and thus established a de-facto standard that is commonly used
throughout the ecosystem.

This specification is intended to fill this gap by specifying how GraphQL should
be served over HTTP. The main intention of this specification is to provide
interoperability between different client libraries, tools and server
implementations.

Spec Location

The GraphQL over HTTP specification is edited in the
spec-md markdown file.

In the future, we plan that you would be able to view the generated form of the
specification as well.

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