Useful RFCs
Useful RFCs
The following Request for Comment (RFC) documents provide valuable general background information for web stress professionals.
W3C,
HTTP Specifications and Drafts,
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/Specs.html
Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L. and M. McCahill,
Uniform Resource Locators
(URL) ,
RFC 1738, December 1994.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt
Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and H. Frystyk,
Hypertext Transfer Protocol --
HTTP/1.0 ,
RFC 1945, May 1996.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.tx
t
Fielding, R., Gettys, J., Mogul, J., Frystyk, H. and T.
Berners-Lee,
Hypertext Transfer
Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 ,
RFC 2068, January 1997.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2068.txt
Irvine, Gettys, Mogul et al.,
Hypertext Transfer
Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 .
RFC 2616 (update to RFC 2068), June 1999,
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html
Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R. and L. Masinter,
Uniform Resource Identifiers
(URI): Generic Syntax and Semantics ,
RFC 2396, August
1998.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt
Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P., Hostetler, J., Lawrence, S.,
Leach, P., Luotonen, A., Sink, E. and L. Stewart,
HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access
Authentication ,
RFC 2617, June 1999.
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt
S. Spero,
Analysis of HTTP Performance
Problems,
http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdma-release/http-prob.html