The new 'Linux Foundation'

Kent Johnson kent37 at tds.net
Thu Feb 8 13:16:30 EST 2007


Paul Lussier wrote:
> Christopher Schmidt <crschmidt at crschmidt.net> writes:
> 
>> On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:46:54AM -0500, Drew Van Zandt wrote:
>>> I find the redhat httpd (and thus by extension the w3c naming)
>> Er, W3C? What relation does the W3C bear to Apache, or even webservers?
> 
> Errr, the webserver must spew-forth http, which is defined by the w3c?
> (Just a guess here :)

Wrong guess. HTTP is an IETF standard defined by RFC:
HTTP 1.0: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt
HTTP 1.1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

HTML was originally specified by RFC also but modern HTML and XML are 
specified by W3C "Recommendations".

Kent



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