Date: Mon, 12 Jan 1998 13:20:56 -0700 (MST) From: Wes Peters - Softweyr LLC <softweyr@xmission.com> To: jmb@FreeBSD.ORG (Jonathan M. Bresler) Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Book Request Message-ID: <199801122020.NAA03478@xmission.xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <199801120042.QAA25634@hub.freebsd.org> from "Jonathan M. Bresler" at Jan 11, 98 04:42:03 pm
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Wes Peters lamented: % I wish W. Richard Stevens would come back from the lecture circuit long % enought to put together a really good TCP/IP illustrated volume 4, and % cover HTTP, TLS, and many of the relatively new internet protocols; I % could have really used such a book this last year. Jonathan M. Bresler replied: > HTTP is covered in volume 3. But only just barely; he basically looks at the socket usage from HTTP/1.0 client/server connections. What I really wanted was a good discussion of how the HTTP/1.1 protocol is suppose to work. Which headers do you use to reliably specify that you're using keep-alive connections, and how long the connections will stay alive? What does your sever need to do to achieve high throughput? Etc. HTTP is really quite a complex protocol at the 1.1 level; I fear what the "design committee" has done to the 2.0 protocol. > what's TLS? Transport Layer Security -- the draft IETF standard based on SSL. It is alarmingly difficult to find any documentation on how to implement the protocol for https:// URLs. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com
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