1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> 2<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> 3<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en"><head><!-- 4 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 5 This file is generated from xml source: DO NOT EDIT 6 XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 7 --> 8<title>Relevant Standards - Apache HTTP Server</title> 9<link href="/style/css/manual.css" rel="stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="Main stylesheet" /> 10<link href="/style/css/manual-loose-100pc.css" rel="alternate stylesheet" media="all" type="text/css" title="No Sidebar - Default font size" /> 11<link href="/style/css/manual-print.css" rel="stylesheet" media="print" type="text/css" /><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/style/css/prettify.css" /> 12<script src="/style/scripts/prettify.min.js" type="text/javascript"> 13</script> 14 15<link href="/images/favicon.ico" rel="shortcut icon" /></head> 16<body id="manual-page"><div id="page-header"> 17<p class="menu"><a href="/mod/">Modules</a> | <a href="/mod/directives.html">Directives</a> | <a href="http://wiki.apache.org/httpd/FAQ">FAQ</a> | <a href="/glossary.html">Glossary</a> | <a href="/sitemap.html">Sitemap</a></p> 18<p class="apache">Apache HTTP Server Version 2.4</p> 19<img alt="" src="/images/feather.gif" /></div> 20<div class="up"><a href="./"><img title="<-" alt="<-" src="/images/left.gif" /></a></div> 21<div id="path"> 22<a href="http://www.apache.org/">Apache</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/">HTTP Server</a> > <a href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs/">Documentation</a> > <a href="../">Version 2.4</a> > <a href="./">Miscellaneous Documentation</a></div><div id="page-content"><div id="preamble"><h1>Relevant Standards</h1> 23<div class="toplang"> 24<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="/en/misc/relevant_standards.html" title="English"> en </a> | 25<a href="/fr/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Fran�ais"> fr </a> | 26<a href="/ko/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> 27</div> 28 29 <p>This page documents all the relevant standards that the 30 Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions.</p> 31 32 <p>In addition to the information listed below, the following resources 33 should be consulted:</p> 34 35 <ul> 36 <li> 37 <a href="http://purl.org/NET/http-errata"> 38 http://purl.org/NET/http-errata</a> - HTTP/1.1 Specification Errata 39 </li> 40 <li> 41 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php"> 42 http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php</a> - RFC Errata 43 </li> 44 <li> 45 <a href="http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC"> 46 http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC</a> - A pre-compiled list 47 of HTTP related RFCs 48 </li> 49 </ul> 50 51 <div class="warning"><h3>Notice</h3> 52 <p>This document is not yet complete.</p> 53 </div> 54 55 </div> 56<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></li> 57<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></li> 58<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authentication">Authentication</a></li> 59<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></li> 60</ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> 61<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 62<div class="section"> 63<h2><a name="http_recommendations" id="http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></h2> 64 65 <p>Regardless of what modules are compiled and used, Apache as a 66 basic web server complies with the following IETF recommendations:</p> 67 68 <dl> 69 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> 70 (Informational)</dt> 71 72 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level 73 protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, 74 collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This documents 75 HTTP/1.0.</dd> 76 77 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616</a> 78 (Standards Track)</dt> 79 80 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an 81 application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, 82 hypermedia information systems. This documents HTTP/1.1.</dd> 83 84 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> 85 (Standards Track)</dt> 86 87 <dd>A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of 88 characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource.</dd> 89 90 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc4346.txt">RFC 4346</a> 91 (Standards Track)</dt> 92 93 <dd>The TLS protocol provides communications security over the 94 Internet. It provides encryption, and is designed to prevent 95 eavesdropping, tampering, and message forgery.</dd> 96 </dl> 97 98 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 99<div class="section"> 100<h2><a name="html_recommendations" id="html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></h2> 101 102 <p>Regarding the Hypertext Markup Language, Apache complies with 103 the following IETF and W3C recommendations:</p> 104 105 <dl> 106 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt">RFC 2854</a> 107 (Informational)</dt> 108 109 <dd>This document summarizes the history of HTML development, 110 and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant 111 W3C recommendations.</dd> 112 113 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401">HTML 4.01 Specification</a> 114 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html4-updates/errata">Errata</a>) 115 </dt> 116 117 <dd>This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), 118 the publishing language of the World Wide Web. This specification 119 defines HTML 4.01, which is a subversion of HTML 4.</dd> 120 121 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32">HTML 3.2 Reference 122 Specification</a></dt> 123 124 <dd>The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language 125 used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one 126 platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents.</dd> 127 128 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/">XHTML 1.1 - 129 Module-based XHTML</a> 130 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2009/xhtml11-2nd-edition-errata.html">Errata</a>) 131 </dt> 132 133 <dd>This Recommendation defines a new XHTML document type 134 that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in 135 Modularization of XHTML.</dd> 136 137 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1">XHTML 1.0 The 138 Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)</a> 139 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/08/REC-xhtml1-20020801-errata/">Errata</a>) 140 </dt> 141 142 <dd>This specification defines the Second Edition of XHTML 1.0, 143 a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three 144 DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.</dd> 145 </dl> 146 147 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 148<div class="section"> 149<h2><a name="authentication" id="authentication">Authentication</a></h2> 150 151 <p>Concerning the different methods of authentication, Apache 152 follows the following IETF recommendations:</p> 153 154 <dl> 155 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt">RFC 2617</a> 156 (Standards Track)</dt> 157 158 <dd>"HTTP/1.0", includes the specification for a Basic 159 Access Authentication scheme.</dd> 160 161 </dl> 162 163 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 164<div class="section"> 165<h2><a name="language_country_codes" id="language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></h2> 166 167 <p>The following links document ISO and other language and country 168 code information:</p> 169 170 <dl> 171 <dt><a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/">ISO 639-2</a></dt> 172 173 <dd>ISO 639 provides two sets of language codes, one as a two-letter 174 code set (639-1) and another as a three-letter code set (this part 175 of ISO 639) for the representation of names of languages.</dd> 176 177 <dt><a href="http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html"> 178 ISO 3166-1</a></dt> 179 180 <dd>These pages document the country names (official short names 181 in English) in alphabetical order as given in ISO 3166-1 and the 182 corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements.</dd> 183 184 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">BCP 47</a> 185 (Best Current Practice), 186 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt">RFC 3066</a></dt> 187 188 <dd>This document describes a language tag for use in cases where 189 it is desired to indicate the language used in an information 190 object, how to register values for use in this language tag, 191 and a construct for matching such language tags.</dd> 192 193 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3282.txt">RFC 3282</a> 194 (Standards Track)</dt> 195 196 <dd>This document defines a "Content-language:" header, for use in 197 cases where one desires to indicate the language of something that 198 has RFC 822-like headers, like MIME body parts or Web documents, 199 and an "Accept-Language:" header for use in cases where one wishes 200 to indicate one's preferences with regard to language.</dd> 201 </dl> 202 203 </div></div> 204<div class="bottomlang"> 205<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="/en/misc/relevant_standards.html" title="English"> en </a> | 206<a href="/fr/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="fr" rel="alternate" title="Fran�ais"> fr </a> | 207<a href="/ko/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> 208</div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img src="/images/up.gif" alt="top" /></a></div><div class="section"><h2><a id="comments_section" name="comments_section">Comments</a></h2><div class="warning"><strong>Notice:</strong><br />This is not a Q&A section. 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