HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol)

References

RFC

• RFC 1945 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 (RFC);

• RFC 2616 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 (RFC) (obsoleted by RFC 7230);

• RFC 2817 -- Upgrading to TLS Within HTTP/1.1 (RFC);

• RFC 7240 -- Prefer Header for HTTP (RFC);

• RFC 7239 -- Forwarded HTTP Extension (RFC);

• RFC 7238 -- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect) (RFC);

• RFC 7236 -- Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Authentication Scheme Registrations (RFC);

• RFC 7237 -- Initial Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Method Registrations (RFC);

• RFC 7235 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Authentication (RFC);

• RFC 7234 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Caching (RFC);

• RFC 7230 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing (RFC);

• RFC 7231 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Semantics and Content (RFC);

• RFC 7232 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Conditional Requests (RFC);

• RFC 7233 -- Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Range Requests (RFC);

• RFC 7616 -- HTTP Digest Access Authentication (RFC);

• RFC 7617 -- The 'Basic' HTTP Authentication Scheme (RFC);

• RFC 6266 -- Use of the Content-Disposition Header Field in the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) (RFC);

• RFC 6265 -- HTTP State Management Mechanism (RFC);

• RFC 5987 -- Character Set and Language Encoding for Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) Header Field Parameters (RFC);

• RFC 7168 -- The Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances (HTCPCP-TEA) (RFC);

• RFC 7538 -- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol Status Code 308 (Permanent Redirect) (RFC);

• RFC 7469 -- Public Key Pinning Extension for HTTP (RFC);

• RFC 7725 -- An HTTP Status Code to Report Legal Obstacles (RFC);

• RFC 8188 -- Encrypted Content-Encoding for HTTP (RFC);

• RFC 8246 -- HTTP Immutable Responses (RFC);

ID

• Tunneling TCP based protocols through Web proxy servers (ID);

• Implications of Blocking Outgoing Ports Except Ports 80 and 443 (ID);

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol version 2 (ID);

Articles

• HTTP 0.2 (ie., HTTP 2.0 / 10);

• The C10K problem;

Resources

• HTML Version of ABNF for <rfc2068.abnf>;

• IETF HTTP-bis WG;

Mailing lists

• https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/http-auth;

• https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/http-devops;

• https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/http-state;

Servers

General purpose

• nginx;

• lighttpd;

• Apache HTTP Server;

• Cherokee;

• Hiawatha;

Light-weight servers

• webfs;

• thttpd;

• publicfile (original);

• publicfile (community);

• shttpd;

• fnord;

• Mathopd;

• mongoose;

• antiweb;

Reverse proxies

• HAProxy;

• Apache Traffic Server;

• Varnish;

• mongrel2;

• node-http-proxy;

• Pound;

• Squid;

• fabio;

• (plus most of the general purpose servers;)

Forward proxies

• Squid;

• Tinyproxy;

• Polipo;

• Privoxy;

• DansGuardian;

CGI

• FastCGI;

• SCGI;

• Haserl;

SSL terminator

• stunnel;

• stud;

• bud;

• crywrap;

Benchmarking

• ab;

• httperf;

• Tsung;

• wrk;

• weighttp;

• userver;

C specific

• http-parser;

• libevent;

• libmicrohttpd;

• libevhttp;

• yaSSL;

• mongoose;

• libonion;

Erlang specific

• Please consult the dedicated page.

Go specific

• Gorilla;

Python specific

• Chaussette;

• Werkzeug;

• gunicorn;

• Tornado;

• CherryPy;

• TwistedWeb2;

• Fapws3;

• uWSGI;

• WSGI;

Ruby specific

• Unicorn;

• Mongrel;

• Thin;

• Ebb;

• Rack;

Java specific

• Apache Tomcat;

• Jetty;

• Grizzly;

Clients

Erlang specific

• Please consult the dedicated page.

Go specific

• Gorilla HTTP client;

• rest;

• goreq;

• gorequest;

Java specific

• Google HTTP Client Library for Java;

User-agents (a.k.a. browsers)

Mainstream

• (no need for introductions;)

Light-weight

• Uzbl;

• Arora;

• Midori;

• Conkeror;

• Kazehakase;

Super-light-weight

• NetSurf;

• Dillo;