HTTP protocol

Find here some links to technical documentation about the HTTP protocol and related subjects.

HTTP specifications

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 -- RFC:2068

Status code

• HTTP status codes are defined in RFC:2616 ( Also on w3 )

MIME Media type

• Official MIME Media Types

Cookies

The Netscape draft seems closer to reality than the actual state management mechanism below:

• Netscape's draft cookie specifications.
• HTTP state management mechanism version one RFC:2109 (HTTP/1.1)
• HTTP state management mechanism version two RFC:2965

Read this article from Apache to better understand the current state of cookies specifications.

URI parsing

• See RFC:3986
• uriparser.sourceforge.net