false 429697 1 Behind every web transaction lies the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) --- the language of web browsers and servers, of portals and search engines, of e-commerce and web services. Understanding HTTP is essential for practically all web-based programming, design, analysis, and administration. While the basics of HTTP are elegantly simple, the protocol's advanced features are notoriously confusing, because they knit together complex technologies and terminology from many disciplines. This book clearly explains HTTP and these interrelated core technologies, in twenty-one logically organized chapters, backed up by hundreds of detailed illustrations and examples, and convenient reference appendices. <i>HTTP: The Definitive Guide</i> explains everything people need to use HTTP efficiently -- including the "black arts" and "tricks of the trade" -- in a concise and readable manner. In addition to explaining the basic HTTP features, syntax and guidelines, this book clarifies related, but often misunderstood topics, such as: TCP connection management, web proxy and cache architectures, web robots and robots.txt files, Basic and Digest authentication, secure HTTP transactions, entity body processing, internationalized content, and traffic redirection. Many technical professionals will benefit from this book. Internet architects and developers who need to design and develop software, IT professionals who need to understand Internet architectural components and interactions, multimedia designers who need to publish and host multimedia, performance engineers who need to optimize web performance, technical marketing professionals who need a clear picture of core web architectures and protocols, as well as untold numbers of students and hobbyists will all benefit from the knowledge packed in this volume. There are many books that explain how to use the Web, but this is the one that explains how the Web works. Written by experts with years of design and implementation experience, this book is the definitive technical bible that describes the "why" and the "how" of HTTP and web core technologies. <i>HTTP: The Definitive Guide</i> is an essential reference that no technically-inclined member of the Internet community should be without. 418682 9 2002 HTTP: The Definitive Guide total:8|5:6|4:1|3:1| 8 37 22 1 5 0 false false Tue Apr 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 08:55:47 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 29 09:00:51 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Nov 08 10:48:09 -0800 2009 Sun Nov 08 10:48:09 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Thu Aug 27 21:27:54 -0700 2009 Thu Aug 27 21:28:00 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Wed Apr 22 08:17:16 -0700 2009 Wed Apr 22 08:17:16 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sun Mar 22 11:00:53 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 11:00:53 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Mon Mar 02 21:52:04 -0800 2009 Mon Mar 02 21:52:04 -0800 2009 5 0 false false Tue Feb 24 14:12:40 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 24 14:12:40 -0800 2009 0 0 false false Sat Jan 24 04:05:14 -0800 2009 Mon Jun 01 23:21:34 -0700 2009 3 0 false false Fri Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2003 Mon Dec 22 22:04:20 -0800 2008 Sun Dec 28 19:32:36 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Sat Sep 13 23:57:10 -0700 2008 Sat Sep 13 23:57:10 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Sep 09 12:07:49 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 09 12:07:49 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Aug 27 12:46:54 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 12:46:54 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Wed Aug 27 11:44:31 -0700 2008 Wed Aug 27 11:44:31 -0700 2008 5 0 false false Fri Aug 01 18:15:13 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 18:15:13 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Thu Jul 24 07:23:05 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 10 07:56:25 -0700 2008 Thu Jul 24 07:23:05 -0700 2008 4 0 false false Fri Jun 27 14:38:38 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 14:38:38 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Wed Apr 30 07:09:06 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 07:09:08 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Tue Apr 08 23:56:22 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 08 23:56:32 -0700 2008 0 0 false false Sun Feb 10 12:35:55 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 10 12:36:01 -0800 2008 5 0 false false Wed Feb 06 06:36:31 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 06 06:36:31 -0800 2008 http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=429697