Study on conformance testing of Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a typical one of application layer protocols in TCP/IP stack. Conformance testing of the Application layer protocols is very important to ensure the complete interconnection among Internet products and services from different vendors, but it has not presented a current topic so far in our country, while the research overseas concentrates on protocol analysis. This paper gives an introduction to the start-of-the-art testing activities of the TCPAP protocols and does a research on HTTP conformance testing, based on a kind of protocol integrated testing system (PITS). A generalized testing nature of Application layer protocols is summarized finally. (Abstract).