HTTP

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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol for the transfer of information on intranets and the World Wide Web. Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve hypertext pages over the Internet.

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Presentations about HTTP

• Experimental Web Optimization given by Scott Trudeau at DUI.Stream and MXHR (NY WebPerf, Jul 2009) on 14 July 2009
• Websites on Speed given by Philip S Tellis at Yahoo!7 Open Session (May 2009) on 25 May 2009
• Web Performance given by Sergey Chernyshev at The New York Web Standards Meetup (March 2009) on 19 March 2009
• Web Performance Tools Demos given by Simon Perkins, Eric Lawrence, Eric Goldsmith, John J. Barton at Velocity 2008 on 24 June 2008
• High Performance Web Pages given by Stoyan Stefanov at 2008 PHP Quebec Conference on 13 March 2008
• High Performance Widgets given by Steve Souders at Widget Summit 2007 on 16 October 2007
• Hacking Apache HTTP Server at Yahoo! given by Michael J. Radwin at OSCON 2006 on 27 July 2006

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Standards related to HTTP

• RFC 5987 - Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field Parameters by J. Reschke (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 August 2010)
• RFC 5842 - Binding Extensions to Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) by G. Clemm, J. Crawford, J. Reschke, J. Whitehead (EXPERIMENTAL / 1 April 2010)
• RFC 5843 - Additional Hash Algorithms for HTTP Instance Digests by A. Bryan (INFORMATIONAL / 1 April 2010)
• RFC 5789 - PATCH Method for HTTP by L. Dusseault, J. Snell (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 March 2010)
• RFC 5689 - Extended MKCOL for Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) by C. Daboo (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 September 2009)
• RFC 5323 - Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV) SEARCH by J. Reschke, S. Reddy, J. Davis, A. Babich (PROPOSED STANDARD / 1 November 2008)
• RFC 3864 - Registration Procedures for Message Header Fields by G. Klyne, M. Nottingham, J. Mogul (BEST CURRENT PRACTICE / 1 September 2004)
• RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 by R. Fielding, J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, L. Masinter, P. Leach, Tim Berners-Lee (DRAFT STANDARD / 1 June 1999)
• RFC 2039 - Applicability of Standards Track MIBs to Management of World Wide Web Servers by C. Kalbfleisch (INFORMATIONAL / 1 November 1996)
• RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 by Tim Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk (INFORMATIONAL / 1 May 1996)