Directory of HTTP Resources

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HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is an application layer protocol. HTTP can be combined with cryptographic protocols. Information related to such protocols (HTTPS) should also be submitted to this category.

Subcategories

• Browsers
• Client Software
• Server Software

Resources in This Category

• 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.

• 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.

• HTTP Tools

  http://www.htttools.com/
  Free tools for development, testing and debugging of HTTP client and server applications.

• HTTP-Header Bulk Check

  http://pc-intern.com/http-header-bulkcheck.html
  Checks up to 10 HTTP Headers from different URLs simultaneously.

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Next Generation Overview

  http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/
  The purpose of the HTTP-NG Project is to tackle current HTTP deficiencies by using sound engineering practices.

• PEP

  http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-http-pep
  W3C working draft of an Extension Mechanism for HTTP.

• RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945
  Despite the improvements made in version 1.1, HTTP/1.0 is still widely used around the Internet.

• RFC 2145 - Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2145
  This document tries to clarify the intentions of the specifications for HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1. The aim is to avoid confusion regarding the use and interpretation of each.

• RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1

  http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
  HTTP/1.1 specification from the World Wide Web Consortium.

• 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,

• The 404 Checker

  http://404checker.com/
  Webmaster tools to get information about websites, information on HTTP status codes. Suggestion on how to create a perfect 404 error page.

• Tutorialspoint: HTTP Protocol

  http://www.tutorialspoint.com/http/index.htm
  Tutorial for beginners. Methods, header fields, status codes are explained with examples.

• 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.

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