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