TCP for Transactions, HTTP, NNTP, and the UNIX(R) Domain Protocols (TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 3)

By Richard Edwards

Praised by reviewers and practicing TCP/IP programmers alike, the TCP/IP Illustrated series examines the many facets of the TCP/IP protocol suite using a unique and highly-effective visual approach that describes the inner workings of TCP/IP with detail, insight, and clarity. Volume 3 provides detailed coverage of four essential topics with which today's TCP/IP programmers and network administrators must be thoroughly familiar: T/TCP (TCP for Transactions), an extension to TCP that makes client-server transactions faster, more efficient, and more reliab HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), the foundation for the rapidly expanding World Wide Web; NNTP (the Network News Transfer Protocol), the basis for the Usenet news system; and UNIX Domain Protocols, a set of protocols used heavily in UNIX implementations. As in the previous two volumes, the book is filled with examples and implementation details within the 4.4BSD-Lite networking code. The TCP/IP Illustrated series provides a complete picture of the protocol suite that drives the Internet, and gives programmers, system administrators, and serious users the information, understanding, and skills they need to remain at the forefront of networking technology. 0201634953B04062001 This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201634953
• ISBN13: 9780201634952
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Good but not as good as the other two

After having read volumes I & II, I felt compelled to read volume III in spite of other customer reviews here. Having just finished this one, I'm inclined to agree with the other reviewers - interesting, but not as earth-shattering as the first two. The first half of the book covers, in volume-II style detail, an implementation of T/TCP for BSD; although this is interesting, it's not very practical, since T/TCP never caught...

Writing software for the web?

If you are planning on writing any software for the web, this is one of the books you need. This book covers T/TCP, HTTP, NNTP, and more including UD Protocols and some good info in the appendix.W. Richard Stevens has never let me down with any of his books, and this one is no diffrent. Its too bad hes not around to write books any more, alot of people will be missing out on great books from a great author.This is a must have!!...

A good book, covering rarely explained protocols.

This book covers a need distinct from the first two volumes - the first two covered the core protocols' internals, while this one covers the application level protocols - a subject hardly covered by any other book.I've found this book very useful for understanding T/TCP, a subject my teacher did not explain well and was obscure for me.The NNTP & HTTP cover was useful, especially as I was doing a lab on HTTP, but I must...

An excellent book supplimenting the first 2!

Like the other two volumes, this book is the definite bible if you are interested in HTTP, T/TCP and UDP. As time passes, these protocols will be used more widely and one will see more people interseted in the book. Similar protocols just start to emerge in areas such as wireless....