Web Directory

» An Analysis of HTTP Performance
   Paper by Joe Touch, John Heidemann, and Katia Obraczka of the USC/Information Sciences Institute.
   http://www.isi.edu/lsam/publications/http-perf/

» Clarifying the Fundamentals of HTTP
   Analysis of HTTP/1.1, identification of its failures, and suggestions for improvement. By Jeffrey C. Mogul of Compaq Research.
   http://www2002.org/CDROM/refereed/444/

» Cookies - HTTP
   Information on cookies including some background info, articles, technical specifications, and what consumer groups think.
   http://www.rajivshah.com/Case_Studies/Cookies/CookiesLinks.html

» Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Next Generation Overview
   The purpose of the HTTP-NG Project is to tackle current HTTP deficiencies by using sound engineering practices.
   http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP-NG/

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

» RFC1945 - HTTP/1.0 Specification
   Despite the improvements made in version 1.1, HTTP/1.0 is still widely used around the Internet.
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945

» RFC2145 - Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers
   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.
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2145

» RFC2616 - HTTP/1.1 Specification
   HTTP/1.1 is the latest specification from the World Wide Web Consortium.
   http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616

» W3C Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview
   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
   http://www.w3.org/Protocols/

» rproxy -- rsync in http
   HTTP extensions to allow download of only the changes between cached and current versions of a page,
   http://rproxy.samba.org/