The Web currently suffers from a number of scalability problems. While general caching techniques can be used to help some, the vast number of different resources now available requires an alternative approach. In particular, we need to develop resourcespecific strategies. Such an approach is not supported in the current Web infrastructure. Also, the current Web is limited in flexibility with r...

We demonstrate efficient live TV distribution over the Internet to Android devices that are modified to use the NetInf information-centric network service as transport. The adaptation of the standard HTTP Live Streaming format to the NetInf transport was straightforward, but required extending NetInf with names for dynamic content. The in-network caching and request aggregation of NetInf result...

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The HTTP protocol which is used for communicating over the World Wide Web is stateless; every request from a client to a server is treated independently. We have developed a new method for preserving state on the World Wide Web known as dynamic argument embedding. The technique has advantages over HTML forms and Netscape cookies, which are two commonly used state preservation techniques. Unlike...

We have developed software for flexible and cost effective high-resolution stereoscopic video playback from an off-the-shelf Windows compatible computer. The software utilizes the highly flexible input format created through compatibility with the Microsoft DirectShow standard. Video processing speeds are based on selected compression method usage in combination with hardware accelerated OpenGL...

This paper describes an HTTP based server able to extract from multi-dimensional time series different types of patterns. It exploits a method coming from the AI field, called Temporal Abstractions, which is used to obtain a high level description of temporal data. The server has been successfully integrated within a telemedicine system for the home monitoring management of diabetic patients.

Over the past several years, the popularity of the World Wide Web (WWW) has steadily increased. Unfortunately, as a result of overloaded servers and lack of bandwidth between clients and servers, response times observed by end users have also steadily increased. Response times are often so unbearable that the popular press has relabeled the “World Wide Web” the “World Wide Wait”. In this paper,...

It is wellknown that http servers can be programmed easier by using multithreading, i.e. each connection is dealt with by a separate thread. It is also known, e.g. from massively parallel programming, that multithreading can be used to hide the long latency of a remote memory access. However, the two techniques do not readily complement each other because context switches do not necessarily occ...

This memo explains how to use the Upgrade mechanism in HTTP/1.1 to initiate Transport Layer Security (TLS) over an existing TCP connection. This allows unsecured and secured HTTP traffic to share the same well known port (in this case, http: at 80 rather than https: at 443). It also enables "virtual hosting", so a single HTTP + TLS server can disambiguate traffic intended for several hostnames ...