HTTP - The definitive guide

David Gourley, Brian Totty, Collectif d'auteurs

654 pages, parution le 05/11/2002

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Résumé

Web technology has become the foundation for all sorts of critical networked applications and far-reaching methods of data exchange, and beneath it all is a fundamental protocol that most of us take for granted but know very little about: HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. While the average web user can remain blissfully unaware of the dozens of HTTP transactions required to download a web page, understanding HTTP is essential for practically all web-based programming and administration. Whether you're writing CGI programs, developing web-based software, or managing a web server, you need to have some knowledge of HTTP. And with the increasing emphasis on web services, which depend heavily on HTTP for interapplication communication, a strong understanding of HTTP is even more essential. HTTP: The Definitive Guide documents everything that technical people need for using HTTP efficiently-including the "black arts" and "tricks of the trade"-and does so in a clear and readable manner. Written by experts with years of practical and teaching experience, this book is the definitive technical bible on HTTP and related core web technologies because it clearly explains the "why" as well as the "how". A reader can understand how web applications work, how the core Internet protocols and architectural building blocks interact, and how to correctly implement Internet clients and servers.

Technical professionals doing Internet software development and architecture, IT professionals who need to understand Internet architectural components and interactions, 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. HTTP: The Definitive Guide is an essential toolkit that no technically-inclined member of the Internet community should be without.

Contents

Part I. HTTP: The Web's Foundation

Overview of HTTP
URLs and Resources
HTTP Messages
Connection Management

Part II. HTTP Architecture

Web Servers
Proxies
Caching
Integration Points: Gateways, Tunnels, and Relays
Web Robots
HTTP-NG

Part III. Identification, Authorization, and Security

Client Identification and Cookies
Basic Authentication
Digest Authentication
Secure HTTP

Part IV. Entities, Encodings, and Internationalization

Entities and Encodings
Internationalization
Content Negotiation and Transcoding

Part V. Content Publishing and Distribution

Web Hosting
Publishing Systems
Redirection and Load Balancing
Logging and Usage Tracking

Part VI. Appendixes

L'auteur - David Gourley

He is the Chief Technology Officer of Endeca, where he leads the research and development of Endeca?s products. David was a member of the founding engineering team at Inktomi, where he helped develop Inktomi?s Internetsearch database, and was a key developer of Inktomi?s web caching products.

L'auteur - Brian Totty

He is the Vice President of R&D at Inktomi Corporation. He has led the technical design and development of web caching, streaming media, and Internet search technologies since he helped found Inktomi in 1996.

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Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	O'Reilly
Auteur(s)	David Gourley, Brian Totty, Collectif d'auteurs
Parution	05/11/2002
Nb. de pages	654
Format	17,8 x 23,2
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1025g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9781565925090