HTTP: The Definitive Guide

Features

• Cover Type: Paperback with 656 pages
• Published by: O'Reilly Media, Inc.
• Edition: 1st Edition September 2002
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 1565925092
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-1565925090
• Book Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 2.3 pounds

Reader Reviews
This review is from: HTTP: The Definitive Guide (Hardcover) This book has much of interest, and reads easily, with lots of pictures and lots of repetition. But it probably served me better than it would have someone who came to it to learn to use HTTP in Web programming. I cared more about the overviews of routers and servers and such, and the conceptual issues involving HTTP -- what it is and how it works. But to actually use it I would want some examples -- even just one example. Instead, we get a couple of random programs -- a mini-server in PERL, and a C program that sets up an HTTPS session using the OpenSSL routines (which themselves remain undefined). The book has interesting material, but much redundancy, and much irrelevancy (chapter 19 on publishing systems is particularly worthless). Several of the appendices seem just dumps of publicly-available web sites, or, what is worse, long selections from them. The authors are good, though, about pointing to various useful web sites at chapter ends and in the appendix. But what this book really should have done, while explaining general concepts, is provide detailed documented examples, involving various configurations of client, server, router, and so on, that would illustrate exactly how HTTP is used. Comment | | (Report this)