SRV.P.4 Other Important References

The following Internet specifications provide information relevant to the development and implementation of the servlet API and engines which support the servlet API:

• RFC 1630 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)

• RFC 1738 Uniform Resource Locators (URL)

• RFC 1808 Relative Uniform Resource Locators

• RFC 1945 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.0)

• RFC 2045 MIME Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies

• RFC 2046 MIME Part Two: Media Types

• RFC 2047 MIME Part Three: Message Header Extensions for non-ASCII text

• RFC 2048 MIME Part Four: Registration Procedures

• RFC 2049 MIME Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples

• RFC 2109 HTTP State Management Mechanism

• RFC 2145 Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers

• RFC 2324 Hypertext Coffee Pot Control Protocol (HTCPCP/1.0) ^[1]

  ^[1] This reference is mostly tongue-in-cheek although most of the concepts described in the HTCPCP RFC are relevant to all well-designed web servers.

• RFC 2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1)

• RFC 2617 HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Authentication

You can locate the online versions of any of these RFCs at:

http://www.rfc-editor.org/

The World Wide Web Consortium (http://www.w3.org/) is a definitive source of HTTP related information that affects this specification and its implementations .

The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is utilized by the deployment descriptors described in this specification. More information about XML can be found at the following web sites:

http://java.sun.com/

http://www.xml.org/