HTTP Information
This page has information about HTTP.
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Very readable overview and introduction to HTTP
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Standard – HTTP
RFC 2616 – Hypertext Transfer Protocol — HTTP/1.1
Previous (obsoleted) version of HTTP/1.1 – RFC 2068
Previous (obsoleted) version of HTTP/1.0 – RFC 1945
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Historical documents
WorldWideWeb: Proposal for a HyperText Project
This is the original proposal for the web, authored by Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Calliau. The proposal is dated for November 12, 1990.
Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW
(informational) This document defines the syntax used by the World-Wide Web initiative to encode the names and addresses of objects on the Internet.
Uniform Resource Locators (URL)
(obsoleted and updated several times) This document describes the syntax and semantics for a compact string representation for a resource available via the Internet. These strings are called “Uniform Resource Locators” (URLs).
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