2006-11-24 16:14:13 · 9 answers · asked by totzzz_636 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
2006-11-24 16:16:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a method used to transfer or convey information on the World Wide Web. Its original purpose was to provide a way to publish and retrieve HTML 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, 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.
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.
2006-11-25 00:22:06 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
>Hypertext Transfer Protocol<
2006-11-25 00:15:58 · answer #3 · answered by Druid 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It means Hypertext Transfer Protocol...
Here is a pretty simple explanation :)
http://www.savetz.com/yic/YIÃ¥C03FI_16.html
2006-11-25 00:15:52 · answer #4 · answered by D B 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP), it is the the actual communications protocol that enables Web browsing.
2006-11-25 00:16:12 · answer #5 · answered by nw_big_skies 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
hypertext transfer protocol: a protocol for transferring hypertext documents, the standard protocol for the World Wide Web.
2006-11-25 00:17:11 · answer #6 · answered by Kevin M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hyper Text Terminal Protocol ( HTTP )
2006-11-25 00:15:43 · answer #7 · answered by Ruwan 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
hypertext transfer protocol
2006-11-25 00:16:59 · answer #8 · answered by Oh2Lovely 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it means its safe
2006-11-25 00:15:58 · answer #9 · answered by HiD 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋