Hypertext caching protocol: Difference between revisions

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HTPC('''Hypertext cachingCaching Protocol''' (abbreviated to protocol'''HTCP''') is used for discovering HTTP caches and cached data,managing sets of HTTP caches and monitoring cache activity.It permits full request and response headers to be used in cache management and expands the ___domain of cache management to include monitoring a remote cache's additions and deletions, requesting immediate deletions and sending hints about web objects such as the third party locations of cacheable objects or unavailability of web objects.

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3. UDP must be supported. HTCP agents must not be isolated from NETWORK failures and delays. An HTCP agent should be prepared to act in useful ways when no response is forthcoming, or when responses are delayed or reordered or damaged. TCP is optional and is expected to be used only for protocol debugging. The IANA has assigned port 4827 as the standard TCP and UDP port number for HTCP.

An HTCP Message has the following general format:

An HTCP Message has the following general format:

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| AUTH | optional authentication for transaction

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[[Category: HTTP]]

==External links==

*RFC 2756 - the [[request for comment]] on HTCP

[[Category: HTTP]]

[[Category:Internet protocols]]