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by: David Gourley, Brian Totty With Marjorie Sayer, Sailu Reddy, Anshu Aggarwal

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Publisher: O'REILLY,01.09.02
Category: COMMUNICATION PROTOCOLS Level: I/A

ISBN: 1565925092
ISBN13: 9781565925090

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Web technology has become the foundation for all sorts of critical networked applications and far-reaching methods of data exchange, and beneath it all is a fundamental protocol: HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP.

HTTP: The Definitive Guide documents everything that technical people need for using HTTP efficiently. A reader can understand how web applications work, how the core Internet protocols and architectural building blocks interact, and how to correctly implement Internet clients and servers.

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Web technology has become the foundation for all sorts of critical networked applications and far-reaching methods of data exchange, and beneath it all is a fundamental protocol that most of us take for granted but know very little about: HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. While the average web user can remain blissfully unaware of the dozens of HTTP transactions required to download a web page, understanding HTTP is essential for practically all web-based programming and administration. Whether you're writing CGI programs, developing web-based software, or managing a web server, you need to have some knowledge of HTTP. And with the increasing emphasis on web services, which depend heavily on HTTP for interapplication communication, a strong understanding of HTTP is even more essential.

HTTP: The Definitive Guide documents everything that technical people need for using HTTP efficiently-including the 'black arts' and 'tricks of the trade'-and does so in a clear and readable manner. Written by experts with years of practical and teaching experience, this book is the definitive technical bible on HTTP and related core web technologies because it clearly explains the 'why' as well as the 'how'. A reader can understand how web applications work, how the core Internet protocols and architectural building blocks interact, and how to correctly implement Internet clients and servers.

Technical professionals doing Internet software development and architecture, IT professionals who need to understand Internet architectural components and interactions, technical marketing professionals who need a clear picture of core web architectures and protocols, as well as untold numbers of students and hobbyists will all benefit from the knowledge packed in this volume. HTTP: The Definitive Guide is an essential toolkit that no technically-inclined member of the Internet community should be without.

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Table of Contents

Preface

Part I. HTTP: The Web's Foundation

1. Overview of HTTP

HTTP: The Internet's Multimedia Courier

Web Clients and Servers

Resources

Transactions

Messages

Connections

Protocol Versions

Architectural Components of the Web

The End of the Beginning

For More Information

2. URLs and Resources

Navigating the Internet's Resources

URL Syntax

URL Shortcuts

Shady Characters

A Sea of Schemes

The Future

For More Information

3. HTTP Messages

The Flow of Messages

The Parts of a Message

Methods

Status Codes

Headers

For More Information

4. Connection Management

TCP Connections

TCP Performance Considerations

HTTP Connection Handling

Parallel Connections

Persistent Connections

Pipelined Connections

The Mysteries of Connection Close

For More Information

Part II. HTTP Architecture

5. Web Servers

Web Servers Come in All Shapes and Sizes

A Minimal Perl Web Server

What Real Web Servers Do

Step 1: Accepting Client Connections

Step 2: Receiving Request Messages

Step 3: Processing Requests

Step 4: Mapping and Accessing Resources

Step 5: Building Responses

Step 6: Sending Responses

Step 7: Logging

For More Information

6. Proxies

Web Intermediaries

Why Use Proxies?

Where Do Proxies Go?

Client Proxy Settings

Tricky Things About Proxy Requests

Tracing Messages

Proxy Authentication

Proxy Interoperation

For More Information

7. Caching

Redundant Data Transfers

Bandwidth Bottlenecks

Flash Crowds

Distance Delays

Hits and Misses

Cache Topologies

Cache Processing Steps

Keeping Copies Fresh

Controlling Cachability

Setting Cache Controls

Detailed Algorithms

Caches and Advertising

For More Information

8. Integration Points: Gateways, Tunnels, and Relays

Gateways

Protocol Gateways

Resource Gateways

Application Interfaces and Web Services

Tunnels

Relays

For More Information

9. Web Robots

Crawlers and Crawling

Robotic HTTP

Misbehaving Robots

Excluding Robots

Robot Etiquette

Search Engines

For More Information

10. HTTP-NG

HTTP's Growing Pains

HTTP-NG Activity

Modularize and Enhance

Distributed Objects

Layer 1: Messaging

Layer 2: Remote Invocation

Layer 3: Web Application

WebMUX

Binary Wire Protocol

Current Status

For More Information

Part III. Identification, Authorization, and Security

11. Client Identification and Cookies

The Personal Touch

HTTP Headers

Client IP Address

User Login

Fat URLs

For More Information

12. Basic Authentication

Authentication

Basic Authentication

The Security Flaws of Basic Authentication

For More Information

13. Digest Authentication

The Improvements of Digest Authentication

Digest Calculations

Quality of Protection Enhancements

Practical Considerations

Security Considerations

For More Information

14. Secure HTTP

Making HTTP Safe

Digital Cryptography

Symmetric-Key Cryptography

Public-Key Cryptography

Digital Signatures

Digital Certificates

HTTPS: The Details

A Real HTTPS Client

Tunneling Secure Traffic Through Proxies

For More Information

Part IV. Entities, Encodings, and Internationalization

15. Entities and Encodings

Messages Are Crates, Entities Are Cargo

Content-Length: The Entity's Size

Entity Digests

Media Type and Charset

Content Encoding

Transfer Encoding and Chunked Encoding

Time-Varying Instances

Validators and Freshness

Range Requests

Delta Encoding

For More Information

16. Internationalization

HTTP Support for International Content

Character Sets and HTTP

Multilingual Character Encoding Primer

Language Tags and HTTP

Internationalized URIs

Other Considerations

For More Information

17. Content Negotiation and Transcoding

Content-Negotiation Techniques

Client-Driven Negotiation

Server-Driven Negotiation

Transparent Negotiation

Transcoding

Next Steps

For More Information

Part V. Content Publishing and Distribution

18. Web Hosting

Hosting Services

Virtual Hosting

Making Web Sites Reliable

Making Web Sites Fast

For More Information

19. Publishing Systems

FrontPage Server Extensions for Publishing Support

WebDAV and Collaborative Authoring

For More Information

20. Redirection and Load Balancing

Why Redirect?

Where to Redirect

Overview of Redirection Protocols

General Redirection Methods

Proxy Redirection Methods

Cache Redirection Methods

Internet Cache Protocol

Cache Array Routing Protocol

Hyper Text Caching Protocol

For More Information

21. Logging and Usage Tracking

What to Log?

Log Formats

Hit Metering

A Word on Privacy

For More Information

Part VI. Appendixes

A. URI Schemes

B. HTTP Status Codes

C. HTTP Header Reference

D. MIME Types

E. Base-64 Encoding

F. Digest Authentication

G. Language Tags

H. MIME Charset Registry

Index