Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are two methods that allow you to upload or download files and pages from the Internet. The two have overlapping ...

Look at the address bar in your browser. See those letters at the front, "HTTP"? That stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the mechanism a browser uses to request information from a server and ...

The full form of HTTP is Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It is a protocol used to transfer hypertext (like HTML pages) over the Internet. HTTP is the foundation of data communication on the World Wide ...

A lot of people end up getting confused when they see two different URL’s one as HTTP and the other as HTTPS. So what is the difference between these two? In this post, I will discuss the evolution of ...

Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

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On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY ("speedy"). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), ...