Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
An Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communication protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
- Context:
- It can define the behavior of HTTP Connections.
- It can support an HTTP Request Method (for the delivery of HTTP request messages).
- It can support an HTTP Response Method? (for the delivery of HTTP response messages).
- It can be implemented into an HTTP-based Server, such as a web server.
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- See: HTTPS, HTML, Application Protocol, Hypermedia, World Wide Web, Hypertext, Hyperlinks, Internet Engineering Task Force, Web Software, Intranet, TPC/IP.
References
2020
- (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypertext_Transfer_Protocol Retrieved:2020-4-28.
- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.[1] HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser.
Development of HTTP was initiated by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989. Development of early HTTP Requests for Comments (RFCs) was a coordinated effort by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), with work later moving to the IETF.
HTTP/1.1 was first documented in in 1997. That specification was obsoleted by in 1999, which was likewise replaced by the family of RFCs in 2014.
HTTP/2 is a more efficient expression of HTTP's semantics "on the wire", and was published in 2015; it is now supported by major web servers and browsers over Transport Layer Security (TLS) using an Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation (ALPN) extension[2] where TLS 1.2 or newer is required. HTTP/3 is the proposed successor to HTTP/2, which is already in use on the web, using UDP instead of TCP for the underlying transport protocol. Like HTTP/2, it does not obsolete previous major versions of the protocol. Support for HTTP/3 was added to Cloudflare and Google Chrome in September 2019, and can be enabled in the stable versions of Chrome and Firefox.
- The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.[1] HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser.
2009
- http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/HTTP
- Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the protocol used most commonly to transfer web pages and accompanying data over the Internet
- WordNet
- S: (n) hypertext transfer protocol, HTTP (a protocol (utilizing TCP) to transfer hypertext requests and information between servers and browsers)