Key differences between HTTP/1.0 and HTTP/1.1

Computer Networks

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1737-1751

  Krishnamurthy, Balachander ^a   Mogul, Jeffrey C ^b   Kristol, David M ^c  

^a AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^b HEWLETT PACKARD COMPANY   (United States)

^c LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BANDWIDTH; BUFFER STORAGE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING; DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; DATA RECORDING; DATA TRANSFER; ENCODING (SYMBOLS); ERROR ANALYSIS; HTTP; OPTIMIZATION; PIPELINE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SECURITY OF DATA;

TRANSMISSION CONTROL PROTOCOL (TCP);

WORLD WIDE WEB;

EID: 0033294476     PISSN: 13891286     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1389-1286(99)00008-0     Document Type: Article

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