Learn more about HTTP from our Protocols directory

An Analysis of HTTP Performance - Paper by Joe Touch

Clarifying the Fundamentals of HTTP - Analysis of HTTP/1.1

Cookies - HTTP - Information on cookies including some background info

Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Next Generation Overview - The purpose of the HTTP-NG Project is to tackle current HTTP deficiencies by using sound engineering practices.

Improving HTTP Latency - Paper by Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Jeffrey C. Mogul.

PEP - W3C working draft of an Extension Mechanism for HTTP.

RFC1945 - HTTP/1.0 Specification - Despite the improvements made in version 1.1

RFC2145 - Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers - This document tries to clarify the intentions of the specs for HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1. The aim is to avoid confusion regarding the use and interpretation of each.

rproxy -- rsync in http - HTTP extensions to allow download of only the changes between cached and current versions of a page

Samba-NTDOM archive by date - Samba-NTDOM archiveby date

View HTML Source Code - Online tool for view a web pages HTML source code and HTTP server headers. See page redirections and cookies and other extra information.

What is SMB? - A document on the SMB protocol.