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<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^(TM) 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^(TM) 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>

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