Outline of initial design of the structured hypertext transfer protocol

Journal of Computer Science and Technology

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 287-298

  Swen, Bin ^a  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

HTTP; Hypertext; Performance; Resource transmission; World Wide Web

Indexed keywords

CLIENT SERVER COMPUTER SYSTEMS; CONGESTION CONTROL (COMMUNICATION); HTML; PACKET SWITCHING; WEBSITES;

RESOURCE TRANSMISSION; STRUCTURED HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE; STRUCTURED HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL;

HTTP;

EID: 0038047719     PISSN: 10009000     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02948898     Document Type: Article

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