Carapace

Internet Standards

Request For Comments -- RFCs

Internet standards (and many others) are issued as 'Request for Comment' documents (RFCs). Virtually all RFCs are available on-line at various sites throughout the world -- one such site is the Sunsite Northern Europe.

There are many RFCs - the mirror sites tend to present them as links such as

    rfc1945.txt
which isn't much use if you don't know the particular RFC number. A very useful document is:
	rfc-index.txt
which lists the RFCs each with its number, title, status etc. This index is itself a large document -- over 400k!

RFCs & Carapace

Some of the RFCs relevant to Carapace are as follows:

no.titledescription
821 Simple Mail Transfer Protocol internet mail protocol
822 Standard for the format of ARPA Internext Text Messages internet mail headers
1945 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0 the Web protocol
2616 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1 the Web protocol -- more recent version
1939 Post Office Protocol - Version 3 fetch messages from a mail server
854 Telnet Protocol Specification widely used internet comms protocol
959 File Transfer Protocol the FTP we know and love
2045
2046
2047
2048
2049
MIME -- Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions Internet mail messages with multiple attachments


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