HTTP Made Really Easy - Tutorial: Quickly learn how to use HTTP in your network applications, if you know basic sockets programming. Covers HTTP 1.0 and HTTP 1.1. Includes sample clients in Perl. http://www.jmarshall.com/easy/http/
HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Introduction, specs, software, mailing lists, presentation, working groups http://www.w3.org/Protocols/