http_driver_io(3) on Linux
The text 5a20fff41ebc, as Debian 6.0 (Squeeze) shipped it.
The HTTP driver behaves similar to the underlying transport driver with respect to reads and writes with the exception that metadata must be passed to the handle via open attributes on the client side and will be received as data descriptors as part of the first request read or response read. The HTTP driver behaves similar to the underlying transport driver with respect to reads and writes with the exception that metadata must be passed to the handle via open attributes on the client side and will be received as data descriptors as part of the first request read or response read.