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24 <a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.5</a> > <a href="./">Miscellaneous Documentation</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Relevant Standards</h1>
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31 <p>This page documents all the relevant standards that the
32 Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions.</p>
34 <p>In addition to the information listed below, the following resources
35 should be consulted:</p>
39 <a href="http://purl.org/NET/http-errata">
40 http://purl.org/NET/http-errata</a> - HTTP/1.1 Specification Errata
43 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php">
44 http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php</a> - RFC Errata
47 <a href="http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC">
48 http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC</a> - A pre-compiled list
53 <div class="warning"><h3>Notice</h3>
54 <p>This document is not yet complete.</p>
58 <div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></li>
59 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></li>
60 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authentication">Authentication</a></li>
61 <li><img alt="" src="../images/down.gif" /> <a href="#language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></li>
62 </ul><h3>See also</h3><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div>
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65 <h2><a name="http_recommendations" id="http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></h2>
67 <p>Regardless of what modules are compiled and used, Apache as a
68 basic web server complies with the following IETF recommendations:</p>
71 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a>
74 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level
75 protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed,
76 collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This documents
79 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616</a>
80 (Standards Track)</dt>
82 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an
83 application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative,
84 hypermedia information systems. This documents HTTP/1.1.</dd>
86 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a>
87 (Standards Track)</dt>
89 <dd>A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of
90 characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource.</dd>
92 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4346.txt">RFC 4346</a>
93 (Standards Track)</dt>
95 <dd>The TLS protocol provides communications security over the
96 Internet. It provides encryption, and is designed to prevent
97 eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.</dd>
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102 <h2><a name="html_recommendations" id="html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></h2>
104 <p>Regarding the Hypertext Markup Language, Apache complies with
105 the following IETF and W3C recommendations:</p>
108 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt">RFC 2854</a>
111 <dd>This document summarizes the history of HTML development,
112 and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant
113 W3C recommendations.</dd>
115 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401">HTML 4.01 Specification</a>
116 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html4-updates/errata">Errata</a>)
119 <dd>This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML),
120 the publishing language of the World Wide Web. This specification
121 defines HTML 4.01, which is a subversion of HTML 4.</dd>
123 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32">HTML 3.2 Reference
124 Specification</a></dt>
126 <dd>The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language
127 used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one
128 platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents.</dd>
130 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/">XHTML 1.1 -
131 Module-based XHTML</a>
132 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2009/xhtml11-2nd-edition-errata.html">Errata</a>)
135 <dd>This Recommendation defines a new XHTML document type
136 that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in
137 Modularization of XHTML.</dd>
139 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1">XHTML 1.0 The
140 Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)</a>
141 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/08/REC-xhtml1-20020801-errata/">Errata</a>)
144 <dd>This specification defines the Second Edition of XHTML 1.0,
145 a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three
146 DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.</dd>
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151 <h2><a name="authentication" id="authentication">Authentication</a></h2>
153 <p>Concerning the different methods of authentication, Apache
154 follows the following IETF recommendations:</p>
157 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt">RFC 2617</a>
158 (Standards Track)</dt>
160 <dd>"HTTP/1.0", includes the specification for a Basic
161 Access Authentication scheme.</dd>
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167 <h2><a name="language_country_codes" id="language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></h2>
169 <p>The following links document ISO and other language and country
170 code information:</p>
173 <dt><a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/">ISO 639-2</a></dt>
175 <dd>ISO 639 provides two sets of language codes, one as a two-letter
176 code set (639-1) and another as a three-letter code set (this part
177 of ISO 639) for the representation of names of languages.</dd>
179 <dt><a href="http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes">
182 <dd>These pages document the country names (official short names
183 in English) in alphabetical order as given in ISO 3166-1 and the
184 corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements.</dd>
186 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">BCP 47</a>
187 (Best Current Practice),
188 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt">RFC 3066</a></dt>
190 <dd>This document describes a language tag for use in cases where
191 it is desired to indicate the language used in an information
192 object, how to register values for use in this language tag,
193 and a construct for matching such language tags.</dd>
195 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3282.txt">RFC 3282</a>
196 (Standards Track)</dt>
198 <dd>This document defines a "Content-language:" header, for use in
199 cases where one desires to indicate the language of something that
200 has RFC 822-like headers, like MIME body parts or Web documents,
201 and an "Accept-Language:" header for use in cases where one wishes
202 to indicate one's preferences with regard to language.</dd>
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