Networking and Web Resources
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The W3C web site:http://www.w3.org/History.html. This URL provides a good starting point that includes pages containing many links, time lines, growth statistics, and other useful resources.
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Internet Core Protocols, E. Hall and V. Cerf (O'Reilly). This book offers a good introduction to the protocols of the Web.
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The HTTP/1.0 specification is contained in RFC-1945 and is found on the IETF web site at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt.
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The HTTP/1.1 specification is contained in RFC-2616 and is found on the IETF web site at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt.
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The Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax specification is contained in RFC-2396 and is found on the IETF web site at http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt.
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RFC-1180: TCP/IP Tutorial, T. Socolofsky and C. Kale. This RFC provides a tutorial on how data is passed through a TCP/IP network and can be found at: ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc1180.txt.