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Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve HTML hypertext pages. Development of HTTP was coordinated by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force, culminating in the publication of a series of RFCs, most notably RFC 2616 (1999), which defines HTTP/1.1, the version of HTTP in common use today.
HTTP is a request/response protocol between clients and servers. The originating client, such as a web browser, spider, or other end-user tool, is referred to as the user agent. The destination server, which stores or creates resources such as HTML files and images, is called the origin server. In between the user agent and origin server may be several intermediaries, such as proxies, gateways, and tunnels. It is useful to remember that HTTP does not need TCP/IP. Indeed HTTP can be "implemented on top of any other protocol on the Internet, or on other networks. HTTP only presumes a reliable transport; any protocol that provides such guarantees can be used."
An HTTP client initiates a request by establishing a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to a particular port on a remote host (port 80 by default; see List of TCP and UDP port numbers). An HTTP server listening on that port waits for the client to send a request message.
Upon receiving the request, the server sends back a status line, such as "HTTP/1.1 200 OK", and a message of its own, the body of which is perhaps the requested file, an error message, or some other information.
Resources to be accessed by HTTP are identified using Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs) (or, more specifically, URLs) using the http: or https URI schemes.
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1. lasekk (125) | 3 years ago | so? LoL
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| hendraktp (85) | 3 years ago | so up to you... LOL
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| 2. ketapang (59) | 3 years ago | Thank all about your information. May it can help me and can became my knowledge..
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3. vissu295_1986 (340) | 3 years ago | LOL! Good Information. But you are expected to start a discussion, not a classroom lecture.:-)
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| hendraktp (85) | 3 years ago | I'm very sorry if you don't have pleasure.
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4. luzamper (1334) | 3 years ago | This is a very good information as we always encounter or use http in writing our url and opening our websites. I have been trying to study these but it seems that I could not comprehend. It's good that I learn how to post in mylot.
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5. wraithstrider (169) | 3 years ago | its a protocol
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