Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume One, 6th Edition

25 World Wide Web (HTTP)

Chapter Contents

1. 25.1 Introduction, 525

2. 25.2 Importance Of The Web, 525

3. 25.3 Architectural Components, 526

4. 25.4 Uniform Resource Locators, 526

5. 25.5 An Example HTML Document, 527

6. 25.6 Hypertext Transfer Protocol, 528

7. 25.7 HTTP GET Request, 528

8. 25.8 Error Messages, 529

9. 25.9 Persistent Connections, 530

10. 25.10 Data Length And Program Output, 530

11. 25.11 Length Encoding And Headers, 531

12. 25.12 Negotiation, 532

13. 25.13 Conditional Requests, 533

14. 25.14 Proxy Servers And Caching, 533

15. 25.15 Caching, 534

16. 25.16 Other HTTP Functionality, 535

17. 25.17 HTTP, Security, And E-Commerce, 535

1. Summary, 536

25.1 Introduction

This chapter continues the discussion of applications that use TCP/IP technology by focusing on the application that ...