Important Standards Documents (Perl & LWP)

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: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2616.txt
RFC 2965: HTTP Cookies Specification: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2965.txt
RFC 2617: HTTP Authentication: Basic and Digest Access Authentication: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2617.txt
RFC 2396: Uniform Resource Identifiers: Generic Syntax: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2396.txt
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.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/country-codes
Unicode specifications: http://www.unicode.org
RFC 2279: Encoding Unicode as UTF-8: ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2279.txt
Request For Comments documents: http://www.rfc-editor.org
IANA protocol assignments: http://www.iana.org/numbers.htm


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