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- <manualpage metafile="relevant_standards.xml.meta">
- <parentdocument href="./">Miscellaneous Documentation</parentdocument>
-
- <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>
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