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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!-- XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX --> <title>Relevant Standards - Apache HTTP Server</title> <link href="../style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> <link href="../style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /> <link href="../images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> <body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> <p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> <p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.0</p> <img alt="" src="../images/feather.gif" /></div> <div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="../images/left.gif" /></a></div> <div id="path"> <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-project/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.0</a> > <a href="./">Miscellaneous Documentation</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Relevant Standards</h1> <div class="toplang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/misc/relevant_standards.html" title="English"> en </a> | <a href="../ko/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> </div> <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> <div class="warning"><h3>Notice</h3> <p>This document is not yet complete.</p> </div> </div> <div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authentication">Authentication</a></li> <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></li> </ul></div> <div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="http_recommendations" id="http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></h2> <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> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="html_recommendations" id="html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></h2> <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> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="authentication" id="authentication">Authentication</a></h2> <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> </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="../images/up.gif" /></a></div> <div class="section"> <h2><a name="language_country_codes" id="language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></h2> <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> </div></div> <div class="bottomlang"> <p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="../en/misc/relevant_standards.html" title="English"> en </a> | <a href="../ko/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> </div><div id="footer"> <p class="apache">Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.<br />Licensed under the <a href="http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0">Apache License, Version 2.0</a>.</p> <p class="menu"><a href="../mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="../mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="../faq/">FAQ</a> | <a href="../glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="../sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p></div> </body></html>