HTTP: The Definitive Guide
Brian Totty, D. Gourley, Marjorie Sayer, Anshu Aggarwal, Sailu Reddy · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 2002
Web technology has become the foundation for all sorts of critical networked applications and far-reaching methods of data exchange, and beneath it all is a fundamental protocol: HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP. HTTP: The Definitive Guide documents everything that technical people need for using HTTP efficiently. A reader can understand how web applications work, how the core Internet protocols and architectural building blocks interact, and how to correctly implement Internet clients and servers.