- W3C Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/
This is the overview materials related to the W3C HTTP activity, one of the W3C Architecture domain activities. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web since 1990 and its use has increased steadily over the years, mainly because it has proven useful as a generic middleware protocol.
- RFC1945 - HTTP/1.0 Specification - http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945
Despite the improvements made in version 1.1, HTTP/1.0 is still widely used around the Internet.
- rproxy -- rsync in http - http://rproxy.samba.org/
HTTP extensions to allow download of only the changes between cached and current versions of a page,
- PEP - http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-http-pep
W3C working draft of an Extension Mechanism for HTTP.
- Cookies - HTTP - http://www.rajivshah.com/Case_Studies/Cookies/CookiesLinks.html
Information on cookies including some background info, articles, technical specifications, and what consumer groups think.
- An Analysis of HTTP Performance - http://www.isi.edu/lsam/publications/http-perf/
Paper by Joe Touch, John Heidemann, and Katia Obraczka of the USC/Information Sciences Institute.
- Improving HTTP Latency - http://archive.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/mogul/HTTPLatency.html
Paper by Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Jeffrey C. Mogul.
- Clarifying the Fundamentals of HTTP - http://www2002.org/CDROM/refereed/444/
Analysis of HTTP/1.1, identification of its failures, and suggestions for improvement. By Jeffrey C. Mogul of Compaq Research.
- View HTML Source Code - http://www.viewhtml.com
Online tool for view a web pages HTML source code and HTTP server headers. See page redirections and cookies and other extra information.
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