HTTP Essentials: Protocols for Secure, Scaleable Web Sites

by Stephen A. Thomas

HTTP is the foundational protocol for exchanging information across the World Wide Web. With HTTP, you'll learn all about something you use on a daily basis, perhaps without realizing what goes on behind the scenes. You'll quickly learn about resources, requests and responses, safe and unsafe methods, connections, cookies, security, and so much more. Equipped with the information in this book, you'll be able to write better web apps and services, and debug them when something goes wrong. This updated and expanded second edition of Book provides a user-friendly introduction to the subject, Taking a clear structural framework, it guides the reader through the subject's core elements. A flowing writing style combines with the use of illustrations and diagrams throughout the text to ensure the reader understands even the most complex of concepts. This succinct and enlightening overview is a required reading for all those interested in the subject . We hope you find this book useful in shaping your future career & Business.

Paperback

First published March 8, 2001

Reviews

[gargamelscat]

Excellent. Clearly written, comprehensive and informative. No avoiding the drudgery of chapter 3's enumeration of all the HTTP headers.

[Peter]

Don't remember much about it.

This note was added years after reading the book.

Newmarket library.