Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the what-already? dept.
fabbe writes "The HTTP 1.1 protocol has been approved by the W3C and IETF. CNET article is here. "
Both bodies apparently showed ruthless efficiency getting
these standards out there... speeds that make even glaciers
jealous.
HTTP/1.1 performance and other issues...
by
jg
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· Score: 5
It wasn't quite as glacial as one might think. The draft standard was approved in March; the RFC issued recently when the RFC editor caught up on backlog. The internet drafts have not had a significant change for nearly a year. Most vendors have been working to the ID's for a long time.
HTTP/1.1 has already been pretty widely deployed: this was the approval of the draft standard, rather than the proposed standard.
As to performance stuff, see: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/
As to recovering IP addresses, most clients have been sending the host name as part of the request using the HOST header for a long while. This means you can distinguish different web sites without depending on the IP address to distinguish them. - Jim Gettys HTTP/1.1 editor.
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It wasn't quite as glacial as one might think.
The draft standard was approved in March; the
RFC issued recently when the RFC editor caught
up on backlog. The internet drafts have not had
a significant change for nearly a year. Most
vendors have been working to the ID's for a long
time.
HTTP/1.1 has already been pretty widely deployed:
this was the approval of the draft standard,
rather than the proposed standard.
As to performance stuff, see:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/Performance/
As to recovering IP addresses, most clients
have been sending the host name as part of the
request using the HOST header for a long while.
This means you can distinguish different web sites
without depending on the IP address to distinguish
them.
- Jim Gettys
HTTP/1.1 editor.