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title: About HTTP/Minimal date: 2025-12-27 lang: en#

About HTTP/Minimal#

HTTP/Minimal is a response to the modern web's complexity and hostility toward users.

The Problem#

The web today requires:

  • Executing arbitrary JavaScript from strangers
  • Accepting tracking cookies
  • Loading megabytes of frameworks to read a paragraph
  • Fighting against dark patterns designed to manipulate you

The Solution#

HTTP/Minimal constrains HTTP to its document-serving roots:

Feature Modern Web HTTP/Minimal
JavaScript Required Forbidden
Cookies Everywhere Forbidden
Tracking Default Minimized
Content HTML soup Clean Markdown
Page weight 2-10 MB ~10 KB

Philosophy#

The web was designed as a document system. HTTP/Minimal returns it to that purpose.

We believe:

  1. Documents should be readable - both by humans and machines
  2. Privacy is the default - not something you opt into
  3. Simplicity scales - complex systems fail in complex ways
  4. Constraints are features - what you can't do matters

Get Involved#

This is an open specification. Fork it, improve it, adopt it.

The spec is released under CC0 - no rights reserved.