HTTP protocol
Introduction to the World Wide Web
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HTTP protocol
Introduction to the World Wide Web

Author : Bernard MARTIN

Publication date: May 10, 2001 | Lire en français

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3. HTTP protocol

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) has been used on the Web since 1990. HTTP was defined by Tim Berners-Lee as "an application-level protocol for hypermedia, cooperative and distributed information systems".

Note :

the first version of the protocol, called HTTP 0.9, defined a basic protocol for transferring raw data over the Internet. The HTTP 1.0 version specified in RFC 1945 defined a more elaborate protocol that allowed message exchange in MIME format. A new version of this protocol, called HTTP 1.1, defined jointly by the W3C consortium and an IETF working group, was standardized in July 1999.

3.1 Question-and-answer protocol

HTTP is a stateless, question-and-answer protocol built...

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