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http-1.1
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- HTTP Compression [ feature ]
- HTTP Cache Support [ feature ]
- HTTP Authentication [ feature ]
- Content Negotiation [ feature ]
- Virtual Hosting [ feature ]
- Persistent Connection [ feature ]
Hypertext Transfer Protocol, HTTP
- HTTP Version 1.0
- HTTP Version 1.1
- HTTP Version 0.9
Types:
caveat
not every client (or server) talks HTTP/1.1 -- backwards compatibility
Comment:
support for virtual-hosting, persistent-connection, multi-part-messages, compression, byte ranges, entity tags, ...
Comment:
introduces more methods: OPTIONS, TRACE, CONNECT -- more request and response headers
example
GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 
Host: www.gnu.com 
Date: Sun, 12 Dec 2003 18:26:28  GMT 
From: rumsti@somewhere.com 
If-modified-since: Sun, 11 Nov 2003 14:00:00  GMT 
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.5  
Comment:
is de-facto standard for transferring World Wide Web documents -- tries to overcome limitations of HTTP 1.0