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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
RFC1945 - HTTP/1.0 Specification - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1945
Despite the improvements made in version 1.1, HTTP/1.0 is still widely used around the Internet. |
RFC2145 - Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2145
This document tries to clarify the intentions of the specs for HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1. The aim is to avoid confusion regarding the use and interpretation of each. |
RFC2616 - HTTP/1.1 Specification - http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2616
HTTP/1.1 is the latest 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, |
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. |