History, Knowledge and Usages of HTTP

1. Introduction to HTTP
History, Knowledge and Usages
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2015.4.1

2. O U T L I N E
• History
• HTTP Basics
• Extended Topics

3. Background - Beyond text
• Hypertext is text which is not constrained to be linear. Hypertext is text
which contains links to other texts.
——《Computer Lib/Dream Machines》 Ted Nelson

4. W h a t i s “ h y p e r ” ?

5. P r o j e c t X a n a d u ( 1 9 6 0 - 2 0 1 4 ? )

6. The Birth of Web 1989
• Tim Beners-Lee @CERN

7. T h e F i r s t B r o w s e r
• “WorldWideWeb”(Nexus)

8. The First Web Server
• CERN httpd on NeXT

9. The First Website
• http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

10. WWW and Internet

11. O U T L I N E
• History
• HTTP Basics
• Extended Topics

12. HTTP Message Structure

13. HTTP Message Structure — Start Line
• Method
• OPTIONS/GET/HEAD/POST/PUT/DELETE/TRACE/CONNECT
• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html
• URL
• URL is an impl of URI
• Status Code(Response)
• 1xx/2xx/3xx/4xx/5xx
• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html
• Reason-Phrase(Response)
• 200 OK, 404 Not Found,
• CRLF
• Carriage-Return r Line-Feed n

14. HTTP Message Structure — Headers
• Request Headers
• Accept headers:
• Accept, Accept-Charset, Accept-Encoding , Accept-Language
• Conditional request headers:
• If-Match, If-None-Match, If-Modified-Since, If-Unmodified-Since
• Request security headers:
• Authorization, Cookie, Cookie2
• Proxy request headers:
• Max-Forwards, Proxy-Authorization, Proxy-Connection

15. HTTP Message Structure — Headers
• Response Headers
• Negotiation headers:
• Accept-Ranges, Vary
• Response security headers:
• Proxy-Authenticate, Set-Cookie, Set-Cookie2, WWW-Authenticate, Access-Control-Allow-Origin
• Content cache headers:
• ETag, Last-Modified, Expires, Cache-Control

16. HTTP Message Structure — Body
• Content Headers
• Content-Type
• Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
• Content-Length
• Content-Encoding
• Content-Range
• Content-Language

17. O U T L I N E
• History
• HTTP Basics
• Extended Topics

18. Persistent Connection
• Why Keep-Alive
• The TCP connection setup handshake
• TCP slow-start congestion control
• Nagle’s Algorithm and TCP_NODELAY
• HTTP 1.0
• Connection: Keep-Alive
• HTTP 1.1
• By Default Keep Alive
• To Close: Connection: Close

19. Caching
• Browser Caching
• Document Expires?
• Cache-Control: max-age=604800
• Expire: Tue, 07 Apr 2015 15:26:18 GMT

20. Caching — Revalidation with Server
• Date • Tag

21. Content-Type — Internet media type
• image/audio/video/text/application/multipart
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_media_type
• Application
• application/x-www-form-urlencoded
• Query String => Post Body
• application/xml, application/json

22. Content-Type — Multipart & MIME
• Multipart
• multipart/form-data
• MIME—Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions

23. Range
• Response
• Content-Length/ Accept-Ranges
• Request
• Range

24. H t t p v e r s i o n s
• HTTP V 0.9(1991)
• Request-Response, only GET
• HTTP V 1.0(1992 draft,1996 release)
• Version Code, More Operations, Headers, Mime
• HTTP V 1.1(1992 draft,1999 release)
• Keep-alive, Proxy
• HTTP V 2.0(2014 draft,? release)
• Header Compression, Parallel Loading over single connection

25. E n d
• Thanks!