HTTP Pocket Reference
by Clinton Wong

This errata page lists errors outstanding in the most recent printing.  

If you have any error reports or technical questions, you can send them to
booktech@oreilly.com.  (Please specify the printing date of your copy.)


This page was last modified on June 16, 2003.

Here's the key to the markup:

        [page-number]: serious technical mistake
        {page-number}: minor technical mistake
        <page-number>: important language/formatting problem
        (page-number): language change or minor formatting problem
        ?page-number?: reader question or request for clarification


Confirmed errors:


[41]  below 2nd paragraph;
The lines contain an example of an HTTP Authorization: header.

According to the example, the string webmaster:zrma4v should be encoded in base64 as
d2VibWFzdGVy0npycW1hNY=

This is incorrect.

The d2Vib... encoding decodes into a string with some non 7-bit ascii characters
which is not webmaster:zrma4v (but close)

The string webmaster:zrma4v encoded in base64, results in d2VibWFzdGVyOnpybWE0dg==

Please also note that this error is repeated in the example on page 71.



(68) last line:
should read "...in its response..."