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  RFC 1945 (rfc1945) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
The protocol versioning policy is intended to allow the sender to indicate the format of a message and its capacity for understanding further HTTP communication, rather than the features obtained via that communication.
Since the protocol version indicates the protocol capability of the sender, a proxy/gateway must never send a message with a version indicator which is greater than its native version; if a higher version request is received, the proxy/gateway must either downgrade the request version or respond with an error.
Proxies and gateways from HTTP to MIME-compliant protocols are responsible for ensuring that the message is in the correct format and encoding for safe transport on that protocol, where "safe transport" is defined by the limitations of the protocol being used.
www.faqs.org /rfcs/rfc1945.html   (15946 words)

  
 RFC 2616 (rfc2616) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
HTTP/1.0, as defined by RFC 1945 [6], improved the protocol by allowing messages to be in the format of MIME-like messages, containing metainformation about the data transferred and modifiers on the request/response semantics.
Since the protocol version indicates the protocol capability of the sender, a proxy/gateway MUST NOT send a message with a version indicator which is greater than its actual version.
An entity-body transferred via HTTP messages MUST be represented in the appropriate canonical form prior to its transmission except for "text" types, as defined in the next paragraph.
www.faqs.org /rfcs/rfc2616.html   (16398 words)

  
 RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1)
It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers [47].
This specification defines the protocol referred to as "HTTP/1.1", and is an update to RFC 2068 [33].
HTTP only presumes a reliable transport; any protocol that provides such guarantees can be used; the mapping of the HTTP/1.1 request and response structures onto the transport data units of the protocol in question is outside the scope of this specification.
hibachi.snert.org:8008 /reference/rfc2616.html   (12335 words)

  
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Since the protocol version indicates the protocol capability of the sender, a proxy/gateway MUST never send a message with a version indicator which is greater than its actual version; if a higher version request is received, the proxy/gateway MUST either downgrade the request version, respond with an error, or switch to tunnel behavior.
Transfer codings are analogous to the Content-Transfer-Encoding values of MIME, which were designed to enable safe transport of binary data over a 7-bit transport service.
In general, an entity-body transferred via HTTP messages MUST be represented in the appropriate canonical form prior to its transmission; the exception is "text" types, as defined in the next paragraph.
www.rfc-editor.org /rfc/rfc2068.txt   (16060 words)

  
 HTTP - a Whatis.com definition
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the set of rules for transferring files (text, graphic images, sound, video, and other multimedia files) on the World Wide Web.
HTTP is an application protocol that runs on top of the TCP/IP suite of protocols (the foundation protocols for the Internet).
HTTP concepts include (as the Hypertext part of the name implies) the idea that files can contain references to other files whose selection will elicit additional transfer requests.
searchsmb.techtarget.com /gDefinition/0,,sid44_gci214004,00.html   (305 words)

  
 Purveyor Administrator's Guide - HyperText Transfer Protocol
For example, the file type for a text file in the HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is identified as text/html, and a.GIF image file is identified as image/gif.
Proxy —; A proxy is a forwarding agent, receiving requests for a URI in its absolute form, rewriting all or parts of the message, and forwarding the reformatted request toward the server identified by the URI.
This is for statistical purposes and to trace protocol violations.
vms.process.com /~help/helphttp.html   (2324 words)

  
 Apache Week. HTTP/1.1
This is the protocol which tells browsers and servers how to communicate, and the features added here determine how Web pages can be accessed.
The resulting HTTP/1.0 protocol was only officially documented in early 1996 with the release of RFC1945.
This can be used to continue an interrupted transfer, or to obtain just part of a long document (say, a single page).
www.apacheweek.com /features/http11   (2155 words)

  
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP, http header
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) was invented by a group of individuals, amongst whom most famously was Tim Berners-Lee.
HTTP 1.0 is described in RFC 1945 as "...an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems".
SSL (now up to version 3.0) is a tunnelling protocol that allows a proxy server to act as a tunnel between the client and the server.
www.rhyshaden.com /http.htm   (6394 words)

  
 Understanding Application Layer Protocols > HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
In this chapter, we'll move further up the OSI Seven Layer Model and take an in-depth look at the workings of some of the Application layer protocols that are most commonly used in content switching.
The HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, must be the most widely used Application layer protocol in the world today.
The HTTP protocol includes definitions for dozens of headers that can be included in the client-to-server and server-to-client requests and responses.
www.informit.com /articles/article.asp?p=169578   (2220 words)

  
 HTTP, HyperText Transfer Protocol
HTTP is an application level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) is a secure message-oriented communications protocol designed for use in conjunction with HTTP.
(RFC 2068) A protocol element (e.g., an entity tag or a Last-Modified time) that is used to find out whether a cache entry is an equivalent copy of an entity.
www.networksorcery.com /enp/protocol/http.htm   (943 words)

  
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
The first line of a Full-Response message is the Status-Line, consisting of the protocol version followed by a numeric status code and its associated textual phrase, with each element separated by SP characters.
Like any generic data transfer protocol, HTTP cannot regulate the content of the data that is transferred, nor is there any a priori method of determining the sensitivity of any particular piece of information within the context of any given request.
www.ostrosoft.com /vb/rfc/rfc1945.html   (15414 words)

  
 RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Standards Track [Page 11] RFC 2616 HTTP/1.1 June 1999 inbound/outbound Inbound and outbound refer to the request and response paths for messages: "inbound" means "traveling toward the origin server", and "outbound" means "traveling toward the user agent" 1.4 Overall Operation The HTTP protocol is a request/response protocol.
The information returned with the response is dependent on the method used in the request, for example: GET an entity corresponding to the requested resource is sent in the response; HE
www.packetizer.com /rfc/rfc.cgi?num=2616   (15635 words)

  
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It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers
A protocol element (e.g., an entity tag or a Last-Modified time) that is used to find out whether a cache entry is an equivalent copy of an entity.
The first line of a Response message is the Status-Line, consisting of the protocol version followed by a numeric status code and its associated textual phrase, with each element separated by SP characters.
xml.resource.org /public/rfc/xml/rfc2616.xml   (15676 words)

  
 HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview
XML Protocol Working Group will define an HTTP binding for XML Protocol, which is a higher-level protocol..
a former W3C Activity on reengineering the basic protocol architecture by using modularity, simplicity and layering.
It is explicitly intended for the collaborative design of new systems, software, protocols, and documentation which may be useful to the WWW developer community.
www.w3.org /Protocols   (1114 words)

  
 HyperText Transfer Protocol--HTTP
This transport mechanism is primarily intended to move hypertext documents (text, images,...) over a network.
Its basic unit of transfer is a file.
Once the hypertext document has been prepared, it is passed back to the HTTP server which then sends it to the client.
www.opendap.org /archive/design/data-delivery-arch/node6.html   (544 words)

  
 HyperText Transfer Protocol - HTTP
Short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, HTTP is a set of standards that let users of the World Wide Web to exchange information found on web pages.
Short for Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure Socket Layer, HTTPS is a secure method of accessing web page information and/or sending information across a web page.
Instead of sending the data as plaintext, the information is first encrypted and then sent, improving the overall security.
www.computerhope.com /jargon/h/http.htm   (272 words)

  
 What is HTTP? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer Dictionary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web.
HTTP is called a stateless protocol because each command is executed independently, without any knowledge of the commands that came before it.
Mecklermedia Web Developer article (1997) on obtaining access control via the HTTP protocol by allowing or disallowing users access to a directory by user name through a series of commands.
www.webopedia.com /TERM/H/HTTP.html   (501 words)

  
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
2] was designed for transfer of hypertext and multimedia files from a server to a web browser and, to a lesser extent, transfer of data from a web browser to a web server.
operation that transfers a file from a server to the browser.
operation that is designed for transfer and storage of an enclosed file from the client to the server, and a
www.radwin.org /michael/projects/jnfs/paper/node9.html   (177 words)

  
 HyperText Transfer Protocol
The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a protocol (a set of rules that describes how information is exchanged) that allows a client (such as a web browser) and an application server to communicate with each other.
The improved connection handling and response length header generation provided by buffered streams also addresses the HTTP 1.1 protocol compliance issues where absence of the response length headers is regarded as a category 1 failure.
However, it is often very inconvenient to keep track of response length in CGI scripts or servlets, and as an application platform provider, the application server is expected to handle such low-level protocol issues.
docs.sun.com /source/817-2176-10/dnhttp.html   (1370 words)

  
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP
Http stands for Hyper Text Transer Protocol and is the common protocol for the Internet.
The protocol is the method or procedure for transfering information.
HTTP is the protocol that is tranfering this HTML document to your browser window.
home.att.net /~gobruen/net/http.html   (1177 words)

  
 Webmonkey Guides: Glossary of Terms
The HTTP (hypertext transfer protocol) preface of Web site URLs is the protocol that sends commands from your browser to a Web site's server to "read" the requested Web page.
Clues for links include underlined words, images featuring a color border, and a cursor turning into a hand when moused over.
Hypertext refers to a collection of hyperlink-laden documents that don't necessarily have to be read in a linear fashion (the "story" is different depending on which links you choose to follow).
www.webmonkey.com /guides/glossary/hyperlink.html   (130 words)

  
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Berners-Lee and his team at CERN paved the way for the future development of the web by introducing their server and browser, the protocol used for communication between the clients and the server, Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), the language used in composeing web documents, Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML), and the Universal Resource Locator (URL).
Once the WWW concepts and the protocols were placed in the public domain, programmers and software developers around the world began intorducing their own modifications and improvements.
Andreesen, a graduate student at the University of Illinois' NCSA (National Center for Supercomputing Applications), led a team of graduate students (including Eric Bina) which, in February of 1993, released the first alpha version of his "Mosaic for X" point-and-click graphical browser for the Web implemented for UNIX.
ei.cs.vt.edu /book/chap1/web_hist.html   (1401 words)

  
 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Kantor, B., and P. Lapsley, "Network News Transfer Protocol: A Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News", RFC 977, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, February 1986.
Postel, J., and J. Reynolds, "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)", STD 9, RFC 959, USC/ISI, October 1985.
HTTP messages may include a single MIME-Version general-header field to indicate what version of the MIME protocol was used to construct the message.
www.cs.wisc.edu /~cao/http1.0-rfc1945.html   (15553 words)

  
 S-HTTP (Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol) (Linktionary term)
The native protocol that World Wide Web clients and servers use to communicate is HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol).
SSL provides the same authentication and encryption functionality, but SSL has the added feature of being able to encrypt all data being passed between client and server, including data at the IP level.
In cases in which public-key certificates are not available, it is possible for a sender and receiver to use a session key that they have exchanged in advance.
www.linktionary.com /s/shttp.html   (393 words)

  
 drx: Hypertext Transfer Protocol [Computers: Internet: Protocols: HTTP] - loadaverageZero
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is what drives the the Web, it is based on the client-server programming model.
For a more detailed discussion on this topic, visit the HTTP Protocol section of my PHP Labs series on building modular XHTML Web pages.
In his first article for Digital Web, Jonathan delivers a well-written overview of the HTTP protocol.
loadaveragezero.com /app/drx/Internet/Protocols/HTTP   (482 words)

  
 httpd - Apache Hypertext Transfer Protocol Server - Apache HTTP Server
is the Apache HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) server program.
It is designed to be run as a standalone daemon process.
Keep the console window open on error so that the error message can be read.
httpd.apache.org /docs/2.0/programs/httpd.html   (346 words)

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