HTTP/1.1
Culmination of two years work, RFC2068
- with Henrik Frystyk, Jim Gettys, Jeff Mogul
- designed at UCI and W3C; expanded in IETF
Improved Reliability
- chunked transfer of dynamic content
- recognition of proxy and gateway requirements
- explicit cachability of responses
Improved Network Behavior
- persistent connections
- virtual hosts (many names, one address)