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| <manualpage metafile="relevant_standards.xml.meta"> |
| <parentdocument href="./">Miscellaneous Documentation</parentdocument> |
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| <title>Relevant Standards</title> |
| |
| <summary> |
| <p>This page documents all the relevant standards that the |
| Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions.</p> |
| |
| <p>In addition to the information listed below, the following resources |
| should be consulted:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <a href="http://purl.org/NET/http-errata"> |
| http://purl.org/NET/http-errata</a> - HTTP/1.1 Specification Errata |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html"> |
| http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.html</a> - RFC Errata |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <a href="http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC"> |
| http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC</a> - A pre-compiled list |
| of HTTP related RFCs |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <note type="warning"><title>Notice</title> |
| <p>This document is not yet complete.</p> |
| </note> |
| |
| </summary> |
| |
| <section id="http_recommendations"><title>HTTP Recommendations</title> |
| |
| <p>Regardless of what modules are compiled and used, Apache as a |
| basic web server complies with the following IETF recommendations:</p> |
| |
| <dl> |
| <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> |
| (Informational)</dt> |
| |
| <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level |
| protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, |
| collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This documents |
| HTTP/1.0.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616</a> |
| (Standards Track)</dt> |
| |
| <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an |
| application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, |
| hypermedia information systems. This documents HTTP/1.1.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> |
| (Standards Track)</dt> |
| |
| <dd>A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of |
| characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource.</dd> |
| </dl> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section id="html_recommendations"><title>HTML Recommendations</title> |
| |
| <p>Regarding the Hypertext Markup Language, Apache complies with |
| the following IETF and W3C recommendations:</p> |
| |
| <dl> |
| <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt">RFC 2854</a> |
| (Informational)</dt> |
| |
| <dd>This document summarizes the history of HTML development, |
| and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant |
| W3C recommendations.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401">HTML 4.01 Specification</a> |
| (<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html4-updates/errata">Errata</a>) |
| </dt> |
| |
| <dd>This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), |
| the publishing language of the World Wide Web. This specification |
| defines HTML 4.01, which is a subversion of HTML 4.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32">HTML 3.2 Reference |
| Specification</a></dt> |
| |
| <dd>The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language |
| used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one |
| platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/">XHTML 1.1 - |
| Module-based XHTML</a> |
| (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410-errata">Errata</a>) |
| </dt> |
| |
| <dd>This Recommendation defines a new XHTML document type |
| that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in |
| Modularization of XHTML.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1">XHTML 1.0 The |
| Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)</a> |
| (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/08/REC-xhtml1-20020801-errata">Errata</a>) |
| </dt> |
| |
| <dd>This specification defines the Second Edition of XHTML 1.0, |
| a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three |
| DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.</dd> |
| </dl> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section id="authentication"><title>Authentication</title> |
| |
| <p>Concerning the different methods of authentication, Apache |
| follows the following IETF recommendations:</p> |
| |
| <dl> |
| <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt">RFC 2617</a> |
| (Draft standard)</dt> |
| |
| <dd>"HTTP/1.0", includes the specification for a Basic |
| Access Authentication scheme.</dd> |
| |
| </dl> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| <section id="language_country_codes"><title>Language/Country Codes</title> |
| |
| <p>The following links document ISO and other language and country |
| code information:</p> |
| |
| <dl> |
| <dt><a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/">ISO 639-2</a></dt> |
| |
| <dd>ISO 639 provides two sets of language codes, one as a two-letter |
| code set (639-1) and another as a three-letter code set (this part |
| of ISO 639) for the representation of names of languages.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html"> |
| ISO 3166-1</a></dt> |
| |
| <dd>These pages document the country names (official short names |
| in English) in alphabetical order as given in ISO 3166-1 and the |
| corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">BCP 47</a> |
| (Best Current Practice), |
| <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt">RFC 3066</a></dt> |
| |
| <dd>This document describes a language tag for use in cases where |
| it is desired to indicate the language used in an information |
| object, how to register values for use in this language tag, |
| and a construct for matching such language tags.</dd> |
| |
| <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3282.txt">RFC 3282</a> |
| (Standards Track)</dt> |
| |
| <dd>This document defines a "Content-language:" header, for use in |
| cases where one desires to indicate the language of something that |
| has RFC 822-like headers, like MIME body parts or Web documents, |
| and an "Accept-Language:" header for use in cases where one wishes |
| to indicate one's preferences with regard to language.</dd> |
| </dl> |
| |
| </section> |
| |
| </manualpage> |