0.4. Important Standards Documents

The basic protocols and data formats of the Web are specified in a number of Internet RFCs. The most important are:

RFC 2616: HTTP 1.1

http://tools.ietf.org/html/2616

RFC 2965: HTTP Cookies Specification

http://tools.ietf.org/html/2965

RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication

http://tools.ietf.org/html/2617

RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax

http://tools.ietf.org/html/2396

HTML 4.01 specification

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/

HTML 4.01 Forms specification

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms

Character sets

http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets

Country codes

http://www.iana.org/root-whois/

Non-country top-level domains (.com, .int, etc)

http://www.iana.org/gtld/gtld.htm

Unicode specifications

http://www.unicode.org

RFC 2279: Encoding Unicode as UTF-8

http://tools.ietf.org/html/2279

Request For Comments documents

http://www.rfc-editor.org

IANA protocol assignments

http://www.iana.org/assignments/port-numbers
http://www.iana.org/numbers.html