HTTP

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External

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol HTTP/1.1 RFC 2616 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
• O'Reilly HTTP: The Definitive Guide https://www.safaribooksonline.com/library/view/http-the-definitive/1565925092/index.html

Internal

• AJP

Overview

HTTP is a synchronous request/response, stateless protocol, where a client makes a request, the server responds and the transaction is done.

Subjects

• Status Codes
• HTTP Request
• HTTP Response
• Headers: General HTTP Header Fields, Request Headers, Response Headers, Entity Headers, Other HTTP Headers
• HTTP Entity
• HTTP Session
• Persistent Connections

Experimental HTTP Server

A simple HTTP server that can be used to investigate the behavior of HTTP clients: https://github.com/NovaOrdis/playground/tree/master/http/http-server