David,
Are you sure you really need to read the HTTP1.1 specs (which are quite
a mouthful, agreed)?
I have based my working knowledge of HTTP on the 1.0 specs, which you
can print on a couple A4 sheets. It will take you far, and is quite
simple. Here is a URL:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/HTTP2.html
There's also a mini-web server described somewhere on java.sun.com, I
believe, which allows you to play with the thing. Printing out the
request from a real-life browser makes everything much simpler to
understand.
I have one (a small server) I made myself based on something I found on
the Web (forgetting who made the basis, sorry). I'll mail it to you if
you are interested, but the code is mixed up with some bandwidth control
code, so it's not so clean.
"Core Web Programming" (Prentice Hall) by Marty Hall has a good chapter
on HTTP and a sample client which allows you to play with the thing from
the client side.
Hope this helps, and..
have fun!
Morten
> David Chisholm wrote:
>
> I'm having a wonderful time this morning reading the HTTP 1.1 spec.
> YUCH! I hate reading IETF and W3C spec documents! Can anyone
> recommend a good book, tutorial, or even a class that discusses
> "using" HTTP versus "implementing" HTTP? I don't know about anyone
> else, but to me it's like pulling teeth to find answers to practical
> usage problems from their spec documents. The JSP spec is the
> ultimate developer's guide compared to the IETF and W3C specs. Those
> of you who have read the JSP spec can appreciate that :)
> TIA,
> David
>
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