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.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 2.2</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 2.2</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="/ko/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> 26</div> 27 28 <p>This page documents all the relevant standards that the 29 Apache HTTP Server follows, along with brief descriptions.</p> 30 31 <p>In addition to the information listed below, the following resources 32 should be consulted:</p> 33 34 <ul> 35 <li> 36 <a href="http://purl.org/NET/http-errata"> 37 http://purl.org/NET/http-errata</a> - HTTP/1.1 Specification Errata 38 </li> 39 <li> 40 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php"> 41 http://www.rfc-editor.org/errata.php</a> - RFC Errata 42 </li> 43 <li> 44 <a href="http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC"> 45 http://ftp.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/#RFC</a> - A pre-compiled list 46 of HTTP related RFCs 47 </li> 48 </ul> 49 50 <div class="warning"><h3>Notice</h3> 51 <p>This document is not yet complete.</p> 52 </div> 53 54 </div> 55<div id="quickview"><ul id="toc"><li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></li> 56<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></li> 57<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#authentication">Authentication</a></li> 58<li><img alt="" src="/images/down.gif" /> <a href="#language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></li> 59</ul><ul class="seealso"><li><a href="#comments_section">Comments</a></li></ul></div> 60<div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 61<div class="section"> 62<h2><a name="http_recommendations" id="http_recommendations">HTTP Recommendations</a></h2> 63 64 <p>Regardless of what modules are compiled and used, Apache as a 65 basic web server complies with the following IETF recommendations:</p> 66 67 <dl> 68 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt">RFC 1945</a> 69 (Informational)</dt> 70 71 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level 72 protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, 73 collaborative, hypermedia information systems. This documents 74 HTTP/1.0.</dd> 75 76 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt">RFC 2616</a> 77 (Standards Track)</dt> 78 79 <dd>The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an 80 application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, 81 hypermedia information systems. This documents HTTP/1.1.</dd> 82 83 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2396.txt">RFC 2396</a> 84 (Standards Track)</dt> 85 86 <dd>A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is a compact string of 87 characters for identifying an abstract or physical resource.</dd> 88 </dl> 89 90 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 91<div class="section"> 92<h2><a name="html_recommendations" id="html_recommendations">HTML Recommendations</a></h2> 93 94 <p>Regarding the Hypertext Markup Language, Apache complies with 95 the following IETF and W3C recommendations:</p> 96 97 <dl> 98 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2854.txt">RFC 2854</a> 99 (Informational)</dt> 100 101 <dd>This document summarizes the history of HTML development, 102 and defines the "text/html" MIME type by pointing to the relevant 103 W3C recommendations.</dd> 104 105 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/html401">HTML 4.01 Specification</a> 106 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html4-updates/errata">Errata</a>) 107 </dt> 108 109 <dd>This specification defines the HyperText Markup Language (HTML), 110 the publishing language of the World Wide Web. This specification 111 defines HTML 4.01, which is a subversion of HTML 4.</dd> 112 113 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html32">HTML 3.2 Reference 114 Specification</a></dt> 115 116 <dd>The HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is a simple markup language 117 used to create hypertext documents that are portable from one 118 platform to another. HTML documents are SGML documents.</dd> 119 120 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/">XHTML 1.1 - 121 Module-based XHTML</a> 122 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2001/04/REC-xhtml-modularization-20010410-errata">Errata</a>) 123 </dt> 124 125 <dd>This Recommendation defines a new XHTML document type 126 that is based upon the module framework and modules defined in 127 Modularization of XHTML.</dd> 128 129 <dt><a href="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1">XHTML 1.0 The 130 Extensible HyperText Markup Language (Second Edition)</a> 131 (<a href="http://www.w3.org/2002/08/REC-xhtml1-20020801-errata">Errata</a>) 132 </dt> 133 134 <dd>This specification defines the Second Edition of XHTML 1.0, 135 a reformulation of HTML 4 as an XML 1.0 application, and three 136 DTDs corresponding to the ones defined by HTML 4.</dd> 137 </dl> 138 139 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 140<div class="section"> 141<h2><a name="authentication" id="authentication">Authentication</a></h2> 142 143 <p>Concerning the different methods of authentication, Apache 144 follows the following IETF recommendations:</p> 145 146 <dl> 147 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc2617.txt">RFC 2617</a> 148 (Draft standard)</dt> 149 150 <dd>"HTTP/1.0", includes the specification for a Basic 151 Access Authentication scheme.</dd> 152 153 </dl> 154 155 </div><div class="top"><a href="#page-header"><img alt="top" src="/images/up.gif" /></a></div> 156<div class="section"> 157<h2><a name="language_country_codes" id="language_country_codes">Language/Country Codes</a></h2> 158 159 <p>The following links document ISO and other language and country 160 code information:</p> 161 162 <dl> 163 <dt><a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/iso639-2/">ISO 639-2</a></dt> 164 165 <dd>ISO 639 provides two sets of language codes, one as a two-letter 166 code set (639-1) and another as a three-letter code set (this part 167 of ISO 639) for the representation of names of languages.</dd> 168 169 <dt><a href="http://www.iso.ch/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/02iso-3166-code-lists/index.html"> 170 ISO 3166-1</a></dt> 171 172 <dd>These pages document the country names (official short names 173 in English) in alphabetical order as given in ISO 3166-1 and the 174 corresponding ISO 3166-1-alpha-2 code elements.</dd> 175 176 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt">BCP 47</a> 177 (Best Current Practice), 178 <a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3066.txt">RFC 3066</a></dt> 179 180 <dd>This document describes a language tag for use in cases where 181 it is desired to indicate the language used in an information 182 object, how to register values for use in this language tag, 183 and a construct for matching such language tags.</dd> 184 185 <dt><a href="http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc3282.txt">RFC 3282</a> 186 (Standards Track)</dt> 187 188 <dd>This document defines a "Content-language:" header, for use in 189 cases where one desires to indicate the language of something that 190 has RFC 822-like headers, like MIME body parts or Web documents, 191 and an "Accept-Language:" header for use in cases where one wishes 192 to indicate one's preferences with regard to language.</dd> 193 </dl> 194 195 </div></div> 196<div class="bottomlang"> 197<p><span>Available Languages: </span><a href="/en/misc/relevant_standards.html" title="English"> en </a> | 198<a href="/ko/misc/relevant_standards.html" hreflang="ko" rel="alternate" title="Korean"> ko </a></p> 199</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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