Deb
07-09-1999, 12:43 PM
With HTTP 1.1 we[nbsp][nbsp]have taken away the weak spots of what HTTP 1.0 inflicted on the Internet and resolved some of the crucial design flaws," the W3C's Henrik Frystyk Nielsen told CNET News.com. Nielsen, the W3C's HTTP activity lead and coauthor of the original protocol and its new version, added, "We've solved some of the problems that were bringing the Internet to its knees."
Familiar to Web users as the prefix to most Web addresses, HTTP sits on top of two other basic protocols that define the Internet and how information passes back and forth between Web clients and servers.
The trouble with HTTP 1.0 is that it doesn't fit well enough with those bottom layers, according to Nielsen. Internet protocol (IP) sits at the bottom and defines the Internet; transport control protocol (TCP) sits in the middle and establishes a conduit or "stream" for transferring data; and HTTP wraps data into packets and governs how they are sent.
HTTP 1.0 required a new stream for each packet of data sent. But HTTP 1.1 can send multiple packets along the same stream, speeding the flow of information on the Web. You will find the article in whole at http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38890,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni
Familiar to Web users as the prefix to most Web addresses, HTTP sits on top of two other basic protocols that define the Internet and how information passes back and forth between Web clients and servers.
The trouble with HTTP 1.0 is that it doesn't fit well enough with those bottom layers, according to Nielsen. Internet protocol (IP) sits at the bottom and defines the Internet; transport control protocol (TCP) sits in the middle and establishes a conduit or "stream" for transferring data; and HTTP wraps data into packets and governs how they are sent.
HTTP 1.0 required a new stream for each packet of data sent. But HTTP 1.1 can send multiple packets along the same stream, speeding the flow of information on the Web. You will find the article in whole at http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38890,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh.ni