on the topic of http ... O'Reilly put the full text of Web Client Programming with Perl online; though slightly dated there's a chapter with a good explanation of http:
http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/webclient/ch03.html -- Jeff On Sat, 13 Jul 2002, Keary Suska wrote: > on 7/13/02 11:13 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] purportedly said: > > > Er, why my browser sent a cookie to the server? i > > think i need to read some doc for this now :( any > > resource? > > To understand cookies: > http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/std/cookie_spec.html > > There is a book published by Addison-Wesley specifically on cookies, which > may be more understandable, but the Netscape article above is fairly > straightforward. > > You should also familiarize yourself with the HTTP spec RFC: > http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html > > Although that may be a bit out of your depth. You will benefit greatly from > a book relating to HTTP. There was an author who posted about his book on > LWP on this list--I don't recall the name or title, but a simple Amazon > search for "LWP" should find it. I can also recommend _Network Programming > with Perl_ by Lincoln Stein, although that is not HTTP/LWP specific. > > Keary Suska > Esoteritech, Inc. > "Leveraging Open Source for a better Internet" >
