Information about Web Servers, HTTP and RFC

A.D.F. -> httpd

Web Servers - Software Resources

• Web Servers - software
  • thttpd - unofficial resources (en)
   
  
• Utilities
  • ab - Apache Benchmark - improved version (en)
  • statfsize - statistics about type and size of web files (en)
   
  

Web Servers - News

• Netcraft News and Surveys
  • Netcraft - Web News
  • Netcraft - Web Server Survey
  • Netcraft - Directory of Web Server Home Sites
   
  
• Server Watch - News about Internet Servers
  • Server Watch - news about Internet servers
  • Server Watch - news about web servers
   
  

Web Servers - Benchmarks

• SPEC - Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation
  • SpecBench - SPECweb99 - benchmarks
   
  

Web Servers - Performance problems

• Dan Kegel's Web Hostel
  • Articles, Benchmarks
  • The C10K problem
   
  
• JAWS
  • Understanding High Performance Web Systems
   
  

HTTP - Documents and RFCs

• W3C - Leading the Web to its full potential ...
  • W3C - HTTP Overview
   
  
• RFC (Request For Comments) about HTTP and related topics
  • RFC 2617 - HTTP Authentication (standard)
  • RFC 2616 - HTTP/1.1 (standard)
  • RFC 2396 - Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI)
  • RFC 2183 - Content-Disposition header field in HTTP messages
  • RFC 2145 - Use and interpretation of HTTP version numbers
  • RFC 2109 - HTTP State Management Mechanism
  • RFC 1945 - HTTP/1.0 (informational standard)
  • RFC 1808 - Relative URLs (Uniform Resource Locators)
   
  

HTTP - Web Tools

• HTTP sniffers (view HTTP headers)
  • Web-Sniffer - view HTTP request and response headers
  • Sniff-URI - view HTTP headers
   
  
• HTTP cacheability engines (test cacheability of web pages)
  • Web-Caching - cacheability query
  • Web-Caching - cacheability engine
   
  

CGI - Common Gateway Interface

• W3C - Leading the Web to its full potential ...
  • W3C - CGI: Common Gateway Interface
   
  
• NCSA - CGI specifications (old)
  • CGI: The Common Gateway Interface - Overview
   
  

FastCGI - Fast Common Gateway Interface

• FastCGI - Open Market
  • Open Market - FastCGI HOME