RFC 9110 supersedes RFC 7231 as the modern IETF specification defining core HTTP architecture, method idempotency, and status code semantics.
Headers like Cache-Control: no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate and conditional validators (ETag) regulate browser caching and CDN edge purging.
The entire catalog is indexed in-memory with real-time substring search, ensuring instant lookups even when offline or behind a firewall.