The Internet has evolved significantly since HTTP 1.1 was introduced 17 years ago. During this evolution, we’ve seen many enhancements to improve a user’s online experience, such as the development of ...

The HTTP-over-QUIC experimental protocol will be renamed to HTTP/3 and is expected to become the third official version of the HTTP protocol, officials at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) ...

The evolution of the web never stands still. As new technologies are developed, consumer behaviors change and the core infrastructure that underpins the internet is forced to adapt. The HTTP protocol ...

KNUTSFORD, England--(BUSINESS WIRE)--PortSwigger, a renowned application security software provider, is issuing a bold challenge to the web security community: it's time to retire HTTP/1.1 for good.

The 1.0 version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, issued way back in 1996, only defined three HTTP verbs: GET, POST and HEAD. The most commonly used HTTP method is GET. The purpose of the GET method ...

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In August and September, threat actors unleashed the biggest distributed denial-of-service attacks in Internet history by exploiting a previously unknown vulnerability in a key technical protocol.

The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today. Today’s ...