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HTTP: The Definitive Guide
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HTTP: The Definitive Guide |
Author: David Gourley
Published: 2002-09 |
List price: $44.95
Our price: $29.67
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As of: December 03rd, 2008 04:09:36 PM
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Great product
Very clear easy to understand / logical / informative / well planned
Truly Definitive
Here's my advice: review the book's contents (you'll need to visit O'Reilly's site at http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/httptdg/). Do you need a complete understanding of the topics? If so, buy this book. Everything is clearly explained in detail, with the chapters on security and internationalization being especially good. Highly recommended!
 Lots of Facts, Poor Focus
This book has much of interest, and reads easily, with lots of pictures and lots of repetition. But it probably served me better than it would have someone who came to it to learn to use HTTP in Web programming. I cared more about the overviews of routers and servers and such, and the conceptual issues involving HTTP -- what it is and how it works. But to actually use it I would want some examples -- even just one example. Instead, we get a couple of random programs -- a mini-server in PERL, and a C program that sets up an HTTPS session using the OpenSSL routines (which themselves remain undefined).
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br /The book has interesting material, but much redundancy, and much irrelevancy (chapter 19 on publishing systems is particularly worthless). Several of the appendices seem just dumps of publicly-available web sites, or, what is worse, long selections from them. The authors are good, though, about pointing to various useful web sites at chapter ends and in the appendix. But what this book really should have done, while explaining general concepts, is provide detailed documented examples, involving various configurations of client, server, router, and so on, that would illustrate exactly how HTTP is used.
Best book on HTTP I've come across
This book is worth more than its weight in gold. The authors do a phenomenal job of describing the HTTP protocol in an interesting and accessible way. Throughout the book their immense experience with the protocol shines through. For anyone working in the field of web acceleration, caching, load balancing, etc, I can't recommend this book highly enough. BUY IT!
Manque d'information
Ce livre manque de contenu et l'auteur se répète beaucoup (ne vous laissez pas impressioner par le nombre de pages). brEn fait, il y a beaucoup d'information assez générale, mais à mon avis pas suffisamment pour développer un serveur, par exemple.brEn particulier, il n'y a pas d'information (ou presque!) concernant les POST. Un "oubli" quelque peu surprenant pour un ouvrage de cette envergure.br-----brVery few information about form submission.
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