HYPERTEXT TRANSFER PROTOCOL PARAMETERS The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) defines some classes of parameters [RFC2616]. If you are looking for the HTTP data types, you should look in the file "url-schemes". HTTP Content-Coding Values Name Description Reference ------ ----------------------------------------------- --------- gzip GNU Zip Compression (the "gzip" program) [RFC1952] compress UNIX File Compression (the "compress" program) [RFC2616] deflate Deflate Compression with "zlib" format [RFC1950+RFC1951] identity [RFC2616] HTTP Transfer Coding Values Name Description Reference ------ ----------------------------------------------- --------- chunked [RFC2616] References [RFC2068] Feilding, R., J. Gettys, J. Mogul, H. Frystyk, T. Berners-Lee, "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", UC Irvine, DEC, MIT/LCS, January 1997. [RFC2616] Fielding, R., et. al., "Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1", RFC 2616, June 1999. []