HTTP: The Definitive Guide
Behind every web transaction lies the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) —- the language of web browsers and servers, of portals and search engines, of e-commerce and web services. Understanding HTTP is essential for practically all web-based programming, design, analysis, and administration.\ While the basics of HTTP are elegantly simple, the protocol's advanced features are notoriously confusing, because they knit together complex technologies and terminology from many disciplines. This...
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This guide gives a complete and detailed description of the HTTP protocol and how it shapes the landscape of the Web by the technologies that it supports.
PrefacePt. IHTTP: The Web's Foundation1Overview of HTTP32URLs and Resources233HTTP Messages434Connection Management74Pt. IIHTTP Architecture5Web Servers1096Proxies1297Caching1618Integration Points: Gateways, Tunnels, and Relays1979Web Robots21510HTTP-NG247Pt. IIIIdentification, Authorization, and Security11Client Identification and Cookies25712Basic Authentication27713Digest Authentication28614Secure HTTP307Pt. IVEntities, Encodings, and Internationalization15Entities and Encodings34116Internationalization37017Content Negotiation and Transcoding395Pt. VContent Publishing and Distribution18Web Hosting41119Publishing Systems42420Redirection and Load Balancing44821Logging and Usage Tracking483Pt. VIAppendixesApp. AURI Schemes499App. BHTTP Status Codes505App. CHTTP Header Reference508App. DMIME Types533App. EBase-64 Encoding570App. FDigest Authentication574App. GLanguage Tags581App. HMIME Charset Registry602Index617
