RFC 2068:Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
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... URI) [3][20], as a location (URL) [4] or name (URN ...


... Universal Resource Identifiers , and finally the combination of Uniform Resource Locators (URL) and Names (URN). As far as HTTP ...
... reserved, extra, safe, and unsafe> For definitive information on URL syntax and semantics, see RFC 1738(-> 4266prop | 4248prop) ...
... BNF above includes national characters not allowed in valid URLs as specified by RFC 1738(-> 4266prop | 4248prop), since HTTP servers ...
... http URL ...
... HTTP protocol. This section defines the scheme-specific syntax and semantics for http URLs. http_URL ...
... URLs. http_URL = "http:" "//" host [ ":" port ] [ abs_path ] ...
... Request-URI for the resource is abs_path. The use of IP addresses in URL's SHOULD be avoided whenever possible (see RFC 1900 [24 ...
... 1900 [24]). If the abs_path is not present in the URL, it MUST be given as "/" when used as a Request-URI for a resource (section 5.1.2). ...
... header field (section 14.15) SHOULD be included in the body-part of each enclosed entity that can be identified by a URL. In general, an HTTP ...


... proxy from changing the meaning of the request when the origin server is improperly using a non-reserved URL character for a reserved purpose. Implementers should be aware that some pre-HTTP/1.1 ...


... recipient MAY attempt to guess the media type via inspection of its content and/or the name extension(s) of the URL used to identify the resource. If the media type remains unknown, the recipient SHOULD ...


... connections, a separate TCP connection was established to fetch each URL, increasing the load on HTTP servers and causing congestion ...


... URI(s) returned in the entity of the response, with the most specific URL for the resource given by a Location header field. The origin server ...
... If the server has a preferred choice of representation, it SHOULD include the specific URL for that representation in the Location field; user agents MAY use the Location field value for automatic ...
... If the new URI is a location, its URL SHOULD be given by the Location field in the response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity ...
... If the new URI is a location, its URL SHOULD be given by the Location field in the response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity ...
... If the new URI is a location, its URL SHOULD be given by the Location field in the response. Unless the request method was HEAD, the entity ...
... The requested resource MUST be accessed through the proxy given by the Location field. The Location field gives the URL of the proxy. The recipient is expected to repeat the request via the proxy ...
... query information, when the client has descended into a URL "black hole" of redirection (e.g., a redirected URL ...
... URL "black hole" of redirection (e.g., a redirected URL prefix that points to a suffix of ...


... (case-sensitive), in combination with the canonical root URL (see section 5.1.2) of the server being accessed, defines the protection space. These realms allow the protected resources on a server to be ...


... We note one exception to this rule: since some applications have traditionally used GETs and HEADs with query URLs (those containing a "?" in the rel_path part) to perform operations with significant side effects, caches ...
... "?" in the rel_path part) to perform operations with significant side effects, caches MUST NOT treat responses to such URLs as fresh unless the server provides an explicit expiration time. This specifically means that responses from HTTP/1.0 ...
... considerations may force service authors to resort to other means of preventing caching (e.g. "once-only" URLs) in order not to suffer the effects of improperly functioning history mechanisms. ...


... entity-header field may be used to specify the base URI for resolving relative URLs within the entity. This header field ...
... Content-Base header field is present, the value of Content- Location also defines the base URL for the entity (see section 14.11). ...
... host and port number of the resource being requested, as obtained from the original URL given by the user or referring resource (generally an HTTP URL ...
... URL given by the user or referring resource (generally an HTTP URL, as described in section 3.2.2). The Host field value MUST represent ...
... network location of the origin server or gateway given by the original URL. This allows the origin server or gateway to differentiate between internally-ambiguous URLs ...
... URL. This allows the origin server or gateway to differentiate between internally-ambiguous URLs, such as the root "/" URL ...
... URLs, such as the root "/" URL of a server for multiple host names on a single IP address. ...
... port for the service requested (e.g., "80" for an HTTP URL). For example, a request on the origin server for <http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/> MUST include: ...
... request messages on the Internet (i.e., on any message corresponding to a request for a URL which includes an Internet host address ...
... created by the request. For 3xx responses, the location SHOULD indicate the server's preferred URL for automatic redirection to the resource. The field value consists of a single absolute URL. ...
... server's preferred URL for automatic redirection to the resource. The field value consists of a single absolute URL. Location = "Location" ":" absoluteURI ...


... Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L., and M. McCahill, "Uniform Resource Locators (URL)", RFC 1738(-> 4266prop | 4248prop), CERN, Xerox PARC, University of Minnesota, December 1994. ...
... Joe Touch, John Heidemann, and Katia Obraczka, "Analysis of HTTP Performance", <URL: http://www.isi.edu/lsam/ib/http-perf/>, USC/Information Sciences Institute, June 1996 ...
... Spero, S., "Analysis of HTTP Performance Problems" <URL:http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdma-release/http-prob.html>. ...


... domain names to be used in root-level HTTP URLs. Given the rate of growth of the Web, and the number of servers already deployed, it is extremely important that all implementations of HTTP ...



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