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      <p id="w3c_toggle_include" class="default_open intro tPadding">This page summarizes the relationships among specifications, whether they are finished standards or drafts. Below, each title
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      <h2 id="drafts">Drafts</h2>
      <p>Below are draft documents:
      <a href="/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr.html#RecsWD">other Working Drafts</a>.
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                     <a href="../history/tracking-dnt" title="Tracking Preference Expression (DNT) publication history">2011-11-14</a>
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                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-tracking-dnt-20111114/">Tracking Preference Expression (DNT)</a>
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                        <p>This specification defines the technical mechanisms for expressing a cross-site tracking preference and mechanisms for sites to signal whether and how they honor this preference.
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                     <a href="../history/tracking-compliance" title="Tracking Compliance and Scope publication history">2011-11-14</a>
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                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-tracking-compliance-20111114/">Tracking Compliance and Scope</a>
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                        <p>This specification defines the meaning of a Do Not Track preference and sets out practices for websites to comply with this preference.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/eventsource" title="Server-Sent Events publication history">2011-10-20</a>
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                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-eventsource-20111020/">Server-Sent Events</a>
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                        <p>This specification defines an API for opening an HTTP connection for receiving push notifications from a server in the form of DOM events.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/HTTP-in-RDF10" title="HTTP Vocabulary in RDF 1.0 publication history">2011-05-10</a>
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                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-HTTP-in-RDF10-20110510/">HTTP Vocabulary in RDF 1.0</a>
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                        <p>The identification of resources on the Web by <acronym>URI</acronym> alone may not be sufficient, as other factors such as <acronym>HTTP</acronym> content negotiation might come into play. This issue is particularly significant for quality assurance testing, conformance claims, and reporting languages like the W3C Evaluation And Report Language (EARL). This document provides a representation of the HTTP vocabulary in <acronym>RDF</acronym>, to allow quality assurance tools to record the HTTP headers that have been exchanged between a client and a server. The RDF terms defined by this document represent the core HTTP specification defined by <acronym>RFC</acronym> 2616, as well as additional HTTP headers registered by <acronym>IANA</acronym>. These terms can also be used to record <acronym>HTTPS</acronym> exchanges.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/Content-in-RDF10" title="Representing Content in RDF 1.0 publication history">2011-05-10</a>
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                        <a title="status is WD" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-Content-in-RDF10-20110510/">Representing Content in RDF 1.0</a>
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                        <p>This document is a specification for a vocabulary to represent Content in <acronym>RDF</acronym>. This vocabulary is intended to provide a flexible framework within different usage scenarios to semantically represent any type of content, be it on the Web or in local storage media. For example, it can be used by Web accessibility evaluation tools to record a representation of the assessed Web content in an Evaluation And Report Language (EARL) 1.0 Schema evaluation report. The document contains introductory information on its usage and some examples.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/WD-HTTP-NG-interfaces" title="HTTP-ng Web Interfaces publication history">1998-07-10</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-HTTP-NG-interfaces-19980710">HTTP-ng Web Interfaces</a>
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                        <p>This is a sample short description for this specification;
	      over time we will replace this description with a real one.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/WD-HTTP-NG-architecture" title="HTTP-ng Architectural Model publication history">1998-07-10</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-HTTP-NG-architecture-19980710">HTTP-ng Architectural Model</a>
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                     <a href="../history/WD-HTTP-NG-wire" title="HTTP-ng Binary Wire Protocol publication history">1998-07-10</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-HTTP-NG-wire-19980710">HTTP-ng Binary Wire Protocol</a>
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                        <p>This is a sample short description for this specification;
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                     <a href="../history/WD-mux" title="SMUX Protocol Specification publication history">1998-07-10</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-mux-19980710">SMUX Protocol Specification</a>
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                        <p>This document defines the experimental multiplexing protocol
referred to as "SMUX". SMUX is a session management protocol
separating the underlying transport from the upper level
application protocols. It provides a lightweight communication
channel to the application layer by multiplexing data streams on
top of a reliable stream oriented transport. By supporting
coexistence of multiple application level protocols (e.g. HTTP and
HTTP/NG), SMUX should ease transitions to future Web protocols, and
communications of client applets using private protocols with
servers over the same TCP connection as the HTTP conversation.</p>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/NOTE-HTTP-NG-testbed-19980710">Design of HTTP-ng Testbed</a>
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                     <a href="../history/WD-HTTP-NG-goals" title="Short- and Long-Term Goals for the HTTP-NG Project publication history">1998-03-27</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/1998/WD-HTTP-NG-goals-19980327">Short- and Long-Term Goals for the HTTP-NG Project</a>
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                     <a href="../history/WD-http-pep" title="PEP Specification: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP publication history">1997-11-21</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-http-pep-971121">PEP Specification: an Extension Mechanism for HTTP</a>
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                        <p>This is a sample short description for this specification;
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                     <a href="../history/WD-jepi-uppflow" title="Selecting Payment Mechanisms Over HTTP publication history">1997-01-06</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-jepi-uppflow-970106">Selecting Payment Mechanisms Over HTTP</a>
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                        <p>This is a sample short description for this specification;
	      over time we will replace this description with a real one.</p>
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                     <a href="../history/WD-ilu-requestor" title="The ILU Requester: Object Services in HTTP Servers publication history">1996-03-07</a>
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                        <a title="status is RETIRED" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/WD-ilu-requestor-960307">The ILU Requester: Object Services in HTTP Servers</a>
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                        <p>The Common Gateway
Interface (CGI) is not scaling to meet the requirements of
today's dynamic, interactive webs. For this reason, multiple
vendors have proposed C callable APIs. These APIs allow authors to
alleviate the performance penalty of CGI, and allow tighter
integration of add-in modules. Unfortunately, this comes at the
price of complexity and portability.</p>
                        <p>This document describes a new model for extending WWW servers.
First, HTTP is captured using an interface
specification, which eliminates the ambiguities of
interpretating a standards-track document. This interface is then
implemented atop a particular httpd's API. Finally, all of this is
done using a standard distributed object model called ILU.</p>
                        <p>Digital Creations' work on our ILU
Requester reflects this design and shows its advantages.
This paper describes the ILU Requester.</p>
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                  <h2>Resources Developed Outside W3C</h2>

                  <p>The following resources are relevant to this area of work.</p>
		  <h3>HTTPbis</h3>
		  <p><strong>2009-11-26</strong>: draft -08 of the <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpbis/">revised HTTP/1.1</a> specifications (See <a href="#http">HTTP/1.1 (RFC 2616) below</a>)</p>
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      <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-08.txt">HTTP/1.1, part 1: URIs, Connections, and Message Parsing</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-08.txt">HTTP/1.1, part 2: Message Semantics</a></li>

      <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p3-payload-08.txt">HTTP/1.1, part 3: Message Payload and Content Negotiation</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p4-conditional-08.txt">HTTP/1.1, part 4: Conditional Requests</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p5-range-08.txt">HTTP/1.1, part 5: Range Requests and Partial Responses</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-08.txt">HTTP/1.1, part 6: Caching
</a></li>
      <li><a href="http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-httpbis-p7-auth-07.txt">HTTP/1.1, part 7: Authentication</a></li>
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    <h3>HTTP State</h3>
    <p>See <a href="http://www.ietf.org/">IETF</a>'s <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/httpstate/">HTTPState</a> Working Group page.</p>
    <h3>BiDirectional or Server-Initiated HTTP</h3>
    <p>See <a href="http://www.ietf.org">IETF</a>'s <a href="http://tools.ietf.org/wg/hybi/">BiDirectional or Server-Initiated HTTP</a> Working Group page.</p>

	                 <h3 id="http">RFC 2616</h3>
	                 <p> 
                     <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1</a> describe the HTTP 1.1 protocol. Quoting from the RFC: "   The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
   protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information
   systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for
   many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and
   distributed object management systems, through extension of its
   request methods, error codes and headers."</p>
                  <h3>RFC 1945</h3>
                  <p>
                     <a href="http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945:  Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0</a> describes the common usage of
   the HTTP protocol in the early years of the Web.</p>
                  <h3>HTTP 0.9</h3>
                  <p>
                     <a href="http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html">
                        <cite> The Original HTTP as defined in 1991 </cite>
                     </a> is the historical documentation of the first definition of the HTTP protocol.</p>

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