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HTTP The Definitive Guide
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. HTTP: The Definitive Guide
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.
HTTP: The Definitive Guide is an essential reference that no
technically-inclined member of the Internet community should
be without.
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