HTTP

jumping to accept

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol#Request_message

Request methods

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/POST_(HTTP)

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec1.html#sec1

1.2 left out
1.3 terminology important
1.4 overall operation

continue with 2. Notational Conventions

I just have learned a difference between FTP and HTTP. It is about in band control and out of band control. Obviously, FTP uses separate connections for data and control. In contrary, HTTP uses just one connection.

At the moment, I am reading RFC 2616.