Hypertext Transfer Protocol

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia manage to pay for advice systems. HTTP is the launch of data communication for the World Wide Web.

Hypertext is structured text that uses logical connections (hyperlinks) together surrounded by nodes containing text. HTTP is the protocol to dispute or transfer hypertext.

Development of HTTP was initiated by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989. Standards go ahead of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), culminating in the statement of a series of Requests for Comments (RFCs). The first definition of HTTP/1.1, the financial metaphor of HTTP in common use, occurred in RFC 2068 in 1997, although this was made olden by RFC 2616 in 1999 and subsequently anew by the RFC 7230 associates of RFCs in 2014.

A progressive fable, the successor HTTP/2, was standardized in 2015, and is now supported by major web servers and browsers greater than TLS using ALPN further marginal note[2] where TLS 1.2 or newer is required.