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Outline of initial design of the Structured Hypertext Transfer Protocol

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This paper presents an introduction to the initial design of the Structured Hypertext Transfer Protocol (STTP), a compatible extension to the HTTP. It includes a new message set for the control of resource transmission, and the Structured Hypertext Markup Language (STML) for describing the structural information of Web pages. Experimental tests show that STTP can be significantly faster than HTTP, with the improvement of transmission time being around 70% to 400% and the same magnitude of packet savings, which is among the best performance improvement ever reported. The paper discusses the basic idea and major design considerations of these components, as well as a few important issues in developing STTP servers and clients.

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This research is supported by the National Hi-Tech R&D 863 Program of China under Grant No.2001AA112081.

SWEN Bin M.A. (1990) and Ph.D. (2000) is a lecturer of Dept. Computer Science at Peking University. His research interests include: networking and the Web, computing models and programming languages, language processing and information extraction. He is responsible for a joint research project of PKU and IBM China Research Center, aiming at providing a customizable Chinese Web page Collection System. He had participated in multiple research projects as a group member, a technical principal, and a team leader, including a joint project of Large-Scale People's Daily Corpus Processing with Fujitsu China Research Center (1998–2000), a Chinese information extraction system of an NSFC project and a joint research project between IBM China Research Center and Peking University (2000–2001), a programming language C** as a Generic Programming extension of C++ together with a type constraint library SCL (1996–2001), and a new protocol called STTP for the transfer control of Web resources.

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Swen, B. Outline of initial design of the Structured Hypertext Transfer Protocol. J. Comput. Sci. & Technol. 18, 287–298 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02948898

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