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Web Sniffer

Online to view request and response headers of a HTTP connection, server's response HTTP status codes and HTML source code of a web page. It can also track permanent and temporary redirects and affiliated or shortened web links.

RFC 2616 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 specification from the World Wide Web Consortium.

W3C Hypertext Transfer Protocol Overview

This is the overview materials related to the W3C HTTP activity, one of the W3C Architecture domain activities. HTTP has been in use by the World Wide Web since 1990 and its use has increased steadily over the years, mainly because it has proven useful as a generic middleware protocol.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Next Generation Overview

The purpose of the HTTP-NG Project is to tackle current HTTP deficiencies by using sound engineering practices.

rproxy -- rsync in http

HTTP extensions to allow download of only the changes between cached and current versions of a page,

PEP

W3C working draft of an Extension Mechanism for HTTP.

RFC 1945 - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - HTTP/1.0

Despite the improvements made in version 1.1, HTTP/1.0 is still widely used around the Internet.

RFC 2145 - Use and Interpretation of HTTP Version Numbers

This document tries to clarify the intentions of the specifications for HTTP versions 1.0 and 1.1. The aim is to avoid confusion regarding the use and interpretation of each.

Tutorialspoint: HTTP Protocol

Tutorial for beginners. Methods, header fields, status codes are explained with examples.

HTTP Tools

Free tools for development, testing and debugging of HTTP client and server applications.