HTTP: The Definitive Guide
HTTP: The Definitive Guide
ISBN: 1565925092
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Authors: David Gourley, Brian Totty
- Copyright
- Preface
- Running Example: Joe s Hardware Store
- Chapter-by-Chapter Guide
- Typographic Conventions
- Comments and Questions
- Acknowledgments
- Part I: HTTP: The Web s Foundation
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 2. URLs and Resources
- Navigating the Internet s Resources
- URL Syntax
- URL Shortcuts
- Shady Characters
- A Sea of Schemes
- The Future
- For More Information
- Chapter 3. HTTP Messages
- The Flow of Messages
- The Parts of a Message
- Methods
- Status Codes
- Headers
- For More Information
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 8. Integration Points: Gateways, Tunnels, and Relays
- Gateways
- Protocol Gateways
- Resource Gateways
- Application Interfaces and Web Services
- Tunnels
- Relays
- For More Information
- Chapter 9. Web Robots
- Crawlers and Crawling
- Robotic HTTP
- Misbehaving Robots
- Excluding Robots
- Robot Etiquette
- Search Engines
- For More Information
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 11. Client Identification and Cookies
- The Personal Touch
- HTTP Headers
- Client IP Address
- User Login
- Fat URLs
- Cookies
- For More Information
- Chapter 12. Basic Authentication
- Authentication
- Basic Authentication
- The Security Flaws of Basic Authentication
- For More Information
- Chapter 13. Digest Authentication
- The Improvements of Digest Authentication
- Digest Calculations
- Quality of Protection Enhancements
- Practical Considerations
- Security Considerations
- For More Information
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 18. Web Hosting
- Hosting Services
- Virtual Hosting
- Making Web Sites Reliable
- Making Web Sites Fast
- For More Information
- Chapter 19. Publishing Systems
- FrontPage Server Extensions for Publishing Support
- WebDAV and Collaborative Authoring
- For More Information
- Chapter 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
- Chapter 21. Logging and Usage Tracking
- What to Log?
- Log Formats
- Hit Metering
- A Word on Privacy
- For More Information
- Part VI: Appendixes
- Appendix A. URI Schemes
- Appendix B. HTTP Status Codes
- Status Code Classifications
- Status Codes
- Appendix C. HTTP Header Reference
- Accept
- Accept-Charset
- Accept-Encoding
- Accept-Language
- Accept-Ranges
- Age
- Allow
- Authorization
- Cache-Control
- Client-ip
- Connection
- Content-Base
- Content-Encoding
- Content-Language
- Content-Length
- Content-Location
- Content-MD5
- Content-Range
- Content-Type
- Cookie
- Cookie2
- Date
- ETag
- Expect
- Expires
- From
- Host
- If-Modified-Since
- If-Match
- If-None-Match
- If-Range
- If-Unmodified-Since
- Last-Modified
- Location
- Max-Forwards
- MIME-Version
- Pragma
- Proxy-Authenticate
- Proxy-Authorization
- Proxy-Connection
- Public
- Range
- Referer
- Retry-After
- Server
- Set-Cookie
- Set-Cookie2
- TE
- Trailer
- Title
- Transfer-Encoding
- UA-(CPU, Disp, OS, Color, Pixels)
- Upgrade
- User-Agent
- Vary
- Via
- Warning
- WWW-Authenticate
- X-Cache
- X-Forwarded-For
- X-Pad
- X-Serial-Number
- Appendix D. MIME Types
- Background
- MIME Type Structure
- MIME Type IANA Registration
- MIME Type Tables
- Appendix E. Base-64 Encoding
- Base-64 Encoding Makes Binary Data Safe
- Eight Bits to Six Bits
- Base-64 Padding
- Perl Implementation
- For More Information
- Appendix F. Digest Authentication
- Digest WWW-Authenticate Directives
- Digest Authorization Directives
- Digest Authentication-Info Directives
- Reference Code
- Appendix G. Language Tags
- First Subtag Rules
- Second Subtag Rules
- IANA-Registered Language Tags
- ISO 639 Language Codes
- ISO 3166 Country Codes
- Language Administrative Organizations
- Appendix H. MIME Charset Registry
- MIME Charset Registry
- Preferred MIME Names
- Registered Charsets
HTTP: The Definitive Guide
ISBN: 1565925092
EAN: 2147483647
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2001
Pages: 294
Pages: 294
Authors: David Gourley, Brian Totty
- Challenging the Unpredictable: Changeable Order Management Systems
- Enterprise Application Integration: New Solutions for a Solved Problem or a Challenging Research Field?
- Context Management of ERP Processes in Virtual Communities
- Relevance and Micro-Relevance for the Professional as Determinants of IT-Diffusion and IT-Use in Healthcare
- Development of Interactive Web Sites to Enhance Police/Community Relations