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URL:
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1945.txt
The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an
application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for
distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless,
object-oriented protocol that can be used for many tasks, such as name servers
and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request
methods (commands). A key feature of HTTP is the typing of data representation,
allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred.
HTTP has been in use by the World-Wide Web global
information initiative since 1990. Most recently, it is also used as one of the
key transport protocols to support Web Services.
Keywords:
Internet, transport, file transfer, protocol
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