Title: 10 Years on...
Product review: Previous experience: I've got a decent enough working knowledge of HTTP, I've had a good read of RFC2616, etcI bought the book looking to fill gaps in knowledge. Others have reviewed the book relatively recently and said the protocol hasn't changed. This is certainly true, but a number of the sections have aged very badly, or cover topics less important in the modern world of high bandwidth links. (Proxy servers, for example, are now a lot less about bandwidth and a lot more about virus scanning and content filtering)The is also a fair amount of coverage of HTTP/1.0 and 0.9, rarely seen these days.That said, the base concepts are still valid and there are things I've learned. So its a bit of a mixed bag really.
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