Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- An application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks and references to other resources. Development of HTTP was initiated in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, while the 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. ← Wikipedia
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