What does "http" mean in a URL?

Question

I see that all the time and I've been wondering what it means. Does NE1 know? Thanx.

Answer 1

To add to the above, yes it means Hyper Text Transfer Protocol, but it's used to tell your browser how to act with the rest of the URL.
There is also File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to transfer files from one computer to another, HTTP Secure (HTTPS) for secure/encrypted transactions and others.

Answer 2

Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

Answer 3

HyperText Transfer Protocol

Answer 4

Http stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol.

Http is the underlying protocol used by the World Wide Web.

Answer 5

it means Hyper Text Transfer Protocol

Answer 6

Hypertext Transfer Protocol. You may have seen sites that start with "ftp" as well, that's File Transfer Protocol.

Answer 7

hypertext transfer protocol - means the way data is transferred across the internet between computers

Answer 8

Uniform Resource Locator. 'Universal' was a term used in the early drafts of the RFC then abandoned. An URL is used to 'retrieve' a resource so it identify it while giving hints on how to retrieve it.

Answer 9

Hypertext Transfer Protocol - this is what all websites use to translate webpages that are written in HTML code

its in almost all webpages because these web pages use http to translate some forein source code to what u see on the page.

if u want to see the complex source code, right click on the webpage and click view source.
this shows you the actual html coding, which its wat http translates

Answer 10

Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP