Further Information

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For further information on HTTP and the HTTP specifications see:

• http://www.w3.org/Protocols is a good general starting point for the HTTP specifications and related specifications and documents.

• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/#Specs for information on the various specifications that relate to HTTP.

• RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

• HTTP/1.0 - Informational RFC 1945: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc1945/rfc1945

For information on the HTTP Basic and Digest Authentication see:

• RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt

For information on the State Management (and Cookies):

• HTTP State Management Mechanism - Proposed Standard RFC 2109: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2109/rfc2109

For information on MIME:

• RFC1521: MIME Part One: Mechanisms for Specifying and Describing the Format of Internet Message Bodies ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1521.txt or ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc1521.pdf

• Or for information about the list and details of Mime types registered ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/

1

100–199 - informational HTTP status codes, 20

2

200–299 - success HTTP status codes, 20

3

300–399 - redirectional HTTP status codes, 21

4

400–499 - client error HTTP status codes, 23

5

500–599 - server error HTTP status codes, 26

A

Accept header

• HTTP Request header, 10

Accept-Charset header

• HTTP Request header, 10

Accept-Encoding header

• HTTP Request header, 10

Accept-Language header

• HTTP Request header, 10

Accept-Ranges header

• HTTP Response header, 12

Age header

• HTTP Response header, 12

Allow header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Application files

• MIME type, 14

Audio files

• MIME type, 16

Authentication-Info header

• HTTP Response header, 12

Authorization header

• HTTP Request header, 11

C

Cache-Control header

• HTTP General header, 9

CONNECT method

• HTTP/1.1 request method, 8

Connection header

• HTTP General header, 9

Content-Encoding header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Content-Language header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Content-Length header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Content-Location header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Content-MD5 header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Content-Range header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Content-Type header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Cookie header

• HTTP Request header, 11

Cookie2 header

• HTTP Request header, 11

cookies

• server methods to maintain state, 3

• web site, 27

D

Date header

• HTTP General header, 10

DELETE method

• HTTP/1.0 request method, 6

doOptions() method, HttpServlet

• overriding, 7

doTrace method, HttpServlet, 8

E

Entity header

• HTTP client request, 5

entity headers

• HTTP server response, 9

Entity headers

• table of HTTP Entity headers, 13

Etag header

• HTTP Response header, 12

Expect header

• HTTP Request header, 11

Expires header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

F

From header

• HTTP Request header, 11

G

General headers

• table of HTTP General headers, 9

GET method

• HTTP/0.9 request method, 5

H

HEAD method

• HTTP/1.0 request method, 6

header

• HTTP client request, 4

Host header

• HTTP Request header, 11

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

• index page explained, 3

• MIME types, 14

• server response explained, 3, 8

• status codes, 18

• transactions, 2

• uses, 1

• versions, 1

• web sites, 27

HTTP client requests, 4

• format, 4

• methods, evolution of, 5

HTTP headers, 9

• Entity headers, table of, 13

• General headers, table of, 9

• Request headers, table of, 10

• Response headers, table of, 12

HTTP request methods

• CONNECT method, HTTP/1.1, 8

• DELETE method, HTTP/1.0, 6

• GET method, HTTP/0.9, 5

• HEAD method, HTTP/1.0, 6

• LINK method, HTTP/1.0, 7

• OPTIONS method, HTTP/1.1, 7

• POST method, HTP/1.0, 6

• PUT method, HTTP/1.0, 6

• TRACE method, HTTP/1.1, 8

• UNLINK method, HTTP/1.0, 7

HttpServletResponse class, javax.servlet.http

• status codes, HTTP, 18

I

If-If-Match header

• HTTP Request header, 11

If-Modified-Since header

• HTTP Request header, 11

If-None-Match header

• HTTP Request header, 11

If-Range header

• HTTP Request header, 11

If-Unmodified-Since header

• HTTP Request header, 11

Image files

• MIME type, 16

index page HTTP, explained, 3

L

Last-Modified header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

Link header

• HTTP Entity header, 13

LINK method

• HTTP/1.0 request method, 7

Location header

• HTTP Response header, 12

M

Max-Forwards header

• HTTP Request header, 11

Messages files

• MIME type, 17

methods

• !see also HTTP request methods, 8

• doOptions() method, HttpServlet, 7

• doTrace method, HttpServlet, 8

MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions)

• types, 14

• Application files, 14

• Audio files, 16

• Image files, 16

• Messages files, 17

• Text files, 17

• Video/VRML/Model files, 18

• web sites, 27

MIME-Version header

• HTTP Entity header, 14

O

OPTIONS method

• HTTP/1.1 request method, 7

overriding

• doOptions() method, HttpServlet, 7

P

POST method

• HTTP/1.0 request method, 6

Pragma header

• HTTP General header, 10

proxy servers

• HTTP transactions, 2

Proxy-Authenticate header

• HTTP Response header, 12

Proxy-Authorization header

• HTTP Request header, 11

PUT method

• HTTP/1.0 request method, 6

R

Range header

• HTTP Request header, 11

references to web sites

• Cookies web site, 27

• HTTP web sites, 27

• MIME web sites, 27

• State Management web site, 27

Referer header

• HTTP Request header, 12

Request body

• HTTP client request, 5

Request headers

• HTTP client request, 5

• table of HTTP Request headers, 10

Response headers

• HTTP server response, 9

• table of HTTP Response headers, 12

response information

• HTTP server response, 8

Retry-After header

• HTTP Response header, 12

S

Server header

• HTTP Response header, 12

server response HTTP, explained, 3

Set-Cookie header

• HTTP Response header, 12

Set-Cookie2 header

• HTTP Response header, 12

state management

• web site, 27

stateless protocol

• server methods to maintain state, 3

status codes, HTTP, 18

• 100–199 - informational, 20

• 100–299 - success, 20

• 300–399 - redirectional, 21

• 400–499 - client error, 23

• 500–599 - server error, 26

• summary of codes, 100–599, 18

T

TE header

• HTTP Request header, 12

Text files

• MIME type, 17

Title header

• HTTP Entity header, 14

TRACE method

• HTTP/1.1 request method, 8

Trailer header

• HTTP General header, 10

Transfer-Encoding header

• HTTP General header, 10

U

UNLINK method

• HTTP/1.0 request method, 7

Upgrade header

• HTTP General header, 10

URI header

• HTTP General header, 10

URL rewriting

• server methods to maintain state, 3

User-Agent header

• HTTP Request header, 12

V

Vary header

• HTTP Response header, 12

Via header

• HTTP General header, 10

Video/VRML/Model files

• MIME type, 18

W

Warning header

• HTTP General header, 10

WWW-Authenticate header

• HTTP Response header, 13

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