Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement

by Balachander Krishnamurthy and Jennifer Rexford

Book Overview

Web Protocols and Practice: HTTP/1.1, Networking Protocols, Caching, and Traffic Measurement is an all-in-one reference to the core technologies underlying the World Wide Web. The book provides an... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0201710889
• ISBN13: 9780201710885
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
• Length: 672 Pages
• Weight: 2.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.6" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

Buy this book!!!

This is so totally readable and comprehensive in its scope, that it was an absolute delight. This one is a keeper and a re-read if you need to understand what the word "web" or "data" means.

Understand Web Performance

You've built a B2C or B2B web service. You get great response time from your office, but there are times when your customers across the country report poor performance. This book with help you understand the entire path between browser and web server and how Internet latency and intermediaries like Proxy servers add to transaction delay. This is the only source that I've seen that a) Defines HTTP 1.1 and b) describes the relationship between HTTP and the TCP/IP protocol stack, making recommendations on how to tune the stack to reduce the effect of latency. You'll learn that many of TCP's flow control mechanisms were designed for FTP, Telnet and Rlogin and some default settings are not optimized, or even appropriate for HTTP.

If you read only one book on HTTP, READ THIS!!!

This is a fabulous book, technically competent, well-written, easy to read and well-organized. It comprehensively covers all the tech-weenie needs to know about clients, proxies, servers, HTTP, and a bunch more without drowning you in math or killing you softly with a gazillion irrelevant details. I found the last chapter, the "Research Perspectives," to be particularly up-to-date and useful. There is a ton of information about HTTP floating around out there. Figuratively speaking, Rexford and Krishnamurthy have taken as their input the coal and produced as their output this diamond.

great book for researchers on web

This is the most comprehensive book on HTTP protocols that I have seen. It covers all related areas, such as web caching, web workloads, and most importantly, possible research directions. (though it has the bias of the authors ;-)) from the prespective of research. Moreover, it is a very timely book, you will find the bibliography of this book is very useful.

Web Protocols and Practice

I give it the best rating for being instantly useful. It is comprehensive; buy this one first and use it for basic and advanced topics. HTTP section is especially useful. The book is timely: Multimedia and web caching are hot topics and well covered. It also forward thinking, touching on research topics for the web.