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Part IV. Entities, Encodings, and Internationalization

Part IV is all about the entity bodies of HTTP messages and the content that the entity bodies ship around as cargo:

Chapter 15 describes the formats and syntax of HTTP content.
Chapter 16 surveys the web standards that allow people to exchange content in different languages and different character sets, around the globe.
Chapter 17 explains mechanisms for negotiating acceptable content.

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