Tag: rfcs
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HTTP is not simple
After discovering it through a Gemini newsgroup, I very much enjoyed Daniel Stenberg's (of cURL fame) explanation that contrary to what you might think, HTTP (even version 1) is not a 'simple' protocol, and is full of weird and knotty underspecified loose ends.
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You MUST listen to RFC 2119
Have you ever wanted to hear a (sarcastic, passive aggressive) dramatic reading of RFC 2119? Eric Bailey - and the actor he found - have got you covered!
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RFC-20
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The choice of this encoding has made ASCII-compatible standards the language that computers use to communicate to this day.
Even casual internet users have probably encountered a URL with “%20” in it where there logically ought to be a space character. If we look at this RFC we see this:
Column/Row Symbol Name
2/0 SP Space … -
RFC 2616 (rfc2616) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1
Bookmarked via del.icio.us: RFC 2616 (rfc2616) - Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1.
HTTP/1.1 Specification, Single-Page HTML