HTTP/1.1 - a Taste of the New
Host: www.ninja.com
- clients MUST send this - fixes multi-homed problem
- already in most 1.0 and 1.1 clients
Range: bytes=300-304,601-993
- useful broken connection recovery (like FTP recovery)
Etag: fa898a3e3
- unique tag to identify document (strong or weak forms)
Cache-control: <command>
- marking documents as private (don’t keep in caches)
“chunked” transfer encoding
- segmenting of documents - don’t have to calculate entire document length. Useful for dynamic query responses..