Links

Protocols

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) 1.1
• Internet Cache Protocol (ICP) 2
• Web Caching-Related Protocols and Standards at http://www.web-cache.com/

Edge Architecture

• Edge Architecture Specification 1.0
• ESI Language Specification 1.0
• ESI Invalidation Protocol 1.0

Content

• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) 4.01
• Extensible Hypertext Markup Language (XHTML) 1.0
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0

Other documents of interest

• The C10K Problem, a well-written article about scalability issues in client-server applications
• Benchmarking BSD and Linux, Felix von Leitner's scalability benchmarks - somewhat dated, but very insightful
• HTTP Performance Overview, a collection of W3C papers on HTTP performance and scalability
• The Spread Toolkit for fast and reliable message-passing
• A Non-interfering Deployable Web Prefetching System (Kokku, Yalagandula, Venkataramani, Dahlin; 2002)