17 References

   [1] Alvestrand, H., "Tags for the identification of languages", RFC
   1766, UNINETT, March 1995.

   [2] Anklesaria, F., McCahill, M., Lindner, P., Johnson, D., Torrey,
   D., and B. Alberti. "The Internet Gopher Protocol: (a distributed
   document search and retrieval protocol)", RFC 1436, University of
   Minnesota, March 1993.

   [3] Berners-Lee, T., "Universal Resource Identifiers in WWW", A
   Unifying Syntax for the Expression of Names and Addresses of Objects
   on the Network as used in the World-Wide Web", RFC 1630, CERN, June
   1994.

   [4] Berners-Lee, T., Masinter, L., and M. McCahill, "Uniform Resource
   Locators (URL)", RFC 1738, CERN, Xerox PARC, University of Minnesota,
   December 1994.

   [5] Berners-Lee, T., and D. Connolly, "HyperText Markup Language
   Specification - 2.0", RFC 1866, MIT/LCS, November 1995.

   [6] Berners-Lee, T., Fielding, R., and H. Frystyk, "Hypertext
   Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.0.", RFC 1945 MIT/LCS, UC Irvine, May
   1996.

   [7] Freed, N., and N. Borenstein, "Multipurpose Internet Mail
   Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies", RFC
   2045, Innosoft, First Virtual, November 1996.

   [8] Braden, R., "Requirements for Internet hosts - application and
   support", STD 3,  RFC 1123, IETF, October 1989.

   [9] Crocker, D., "Standard for the Format of ARPA Internet Text
   Messages", STD 11, RFC 822, UDEL, August 1982.

   [10] Davis, F., Kahle, B., Morris, H., Salem, J., Shen, T., Wang, R.,
   Sui, J., and M. Grinbaum. "WAIS Interface Protocol Prototype
   Functional Specification", (v1.5), Thinking Machines Corporation,
   April 1990.

   [11] Fielding, R., "Relative Uniform Resource Locators", RFC 1808, UC
   Irvine, June 1995.

   [12] Horton, M., and R. Adams. "Standard for interchange of USENET
   messages", RFC 1036, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Center for Seismic
   Studies, December 1987.

   [13] Kantor, B., and P. Lapsley. "Network News Transfer Protocol." A
   Proposed Standard for the Stream-Based Transmission of News", RFC
   977, UC San Diego, UC Berkeley, February 1986.

   [14] Moore, K., "MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part
   Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text", RFC 2047,
   University of Tennessee, November 1996.

   [15] Nebel, E., and L. Masinter. "Form-based File Upload in HTML",
   RFC 1867, Xerox Corporation, November 1995.

   [16] Postel, J., "Simple Mail Transfer Protocol", STD 10, RFC 821,
   USC/ISI, August 1982.

   [17] Postel, J., "Media Type Registration Procedure", RFC 2048,
   USC/ISI, November 1996.

   [18] Postel, J., and J. Reynolds, "File Transfer Protocol (FTP)", STD
   9, RFC 959, USC/ISI, October 1985.

   [19] Reynolds, J., and J. Postel, "Assigned Numbers", STD 2, RFC
   1700, USC/ISI, October 1994.

   [20] Sollins, K., and L. Masinter, "Functional Requirements for
   Uniform Resource Names", RFC 1737, MIT/LCS, Xerox Corporation,
   December 1994.

   [21] US-ASCII. Coded Character Set - 7-Bit American Standard Code for
   Information Interchange. Standard ANSI X3.4-1986, ANSI, 1986.

   [22] ISO-8859. International Standard -- Information Processing --
     8-bit Single-Byte Coded Graphic Character Sets --
     Part 1: Latin alphabet No. 1, ISO 8859-1:1987.
     Part 2: Latin alphabet No. 2, ISO 8859-2, 1987.
     Part 3: Latin alphabet No. 3, ISO 8859-3, 1988.
     Part 4: Latin alphabet No. 4, ISO 8859-4, 1988.
     Part 5: Latin/Cyrillic alphabet, ISO 8859-5, 1988.
     Part 6: Latin/Arabic alphabet, ISO 8859-6, 1987.
     Part 7: Latin/Greek alphabet, ISO 8859-7, 1987.
     Part 8: Latin/Hebrew alphabet, ISO 8859-8, 1988.
     Part 9: Latin alphabet No. 5, ISO 8859-9, 1990.

   [23] Meyers, J., and M. Rose "The Content-MD5 Header Field", RFC
   1864, Carnegie Mellon, Dover Beach Consulting, October, 1995.

   [24] Carpenter, B., and Y. Rekhter, "Renumbering Needs Work", RFC
   1900, IAB, February 1996.

   [25] Deutsch, P., "GZIP file format specification version 4.3." RFC
   1952, Aladdin Enterprises, May 1996.

   [26] Venkata N. Padmanabhan and Jeffrey C. Mogul. Improving HTTP
   Latency. Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, v. 28, pp. 25-35, Dec.
   1995.  Slightly revised version of paper in Proc. 2nd International
   WWW Conf. '94: Mosaic and the Web, Oct. 1994, which is available at
   http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/IT94/Proceedings/DDay/mogul/
   HTTPLatency.html.

   [27] Joe Touch, John Heidemann, and Katia Obraczka, "Analysis of HTTP
   Performance", <URL: http://www.isi.edu/lsam/ib/http-perf/>,
   USC/Information Sciences Institute, June 1996

   [28] Mills, D., "Network Time Protocol, Version 3, Specification,
   Implementation and Analysis", RFC 1305, University of Delaware, March
   1992.

   [29] Deutsch, P., "DEFLATE Compressed Data Format Specification
   version 1.3." RFC 1951, Aladdin Enterprises, May 1996.

   [30] Spero, S., "Analysis of HTTP Performance Problems"
   <URL:http://sunsite.unc.edu/mdma-release/http-prob.html>.

   [31] Deutsch, P., and J-L. Gailly, "ZLIB Compressed Data Format
   Specification version 3.3", RFC 1950, Aladdin Enterprises, Info-ZIP,
   May 1996.

   [32] Franks, J., Hallam-Baker, P., Hostetler, J., Leach, P.,
   Luotonen, A., Sink, E., and L. Stewart, "An Extension to HTTP :
   Digest Access Authentication", RFC 2069, January 1997.