The HTTP specifications are currently under development. Some
useful reference documents are:
- Overview of HTTP Resources (with pointers to various drafts of the protocol)
- http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/Overview.html
- HTTP Draft Specification
- http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html
- Authentication, Encryption, and the Web Overview
- http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Security/Overview.html
- The Basic Authentication Scheme
- http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/AccessAuthorization/Overview.html
- EIT's Secure HTTP (S-HTTP) Proposal
- http://www.eit.com/projects/s-http/
- Netscape Communications Security Technology Overview
- http://home.mcom.com/info/security-doc.html
- Netscape Communications Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Proposal
- http://www.mcom.com/newsref/std/SSL.html
- http://home.mcom.com/info/security-doc.html
- Spyglass Authentication Scheme - Digest Access Authentication
- http://ds.internic.net/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-http-digest-aa-01.txt (obsolete -- may be deleted)
- CERN proxy HTTP server:
- http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Proxies/Proxies.html
- CERN Server Format Negotiation
- http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Config/Rules/html#Map
- Apache Server Content Negotiation
- http://www.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html
- Some thoughts on the "Next Generation" of HTTP are found at:
- http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP-NT/http-ng-status.html