HTTP, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, is the application-layer protocol that carries requests and responses between web browsers and servers, and is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Tim Berners-Lee designed the original protocol at CERN alongside HTML and the URL scheme, with an early version documented in 1991 as part of the Web's founding toolkit. Later revisions, including HTTP/1.1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, added persistent connections, multiplexing and other performance improvements while keeping the same request-response model at its core. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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SignificanceThe application-layer protocol that carries the World Wide Web's request-response traffic between browsers and servers. 1 Connections
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HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, where hypertext documents include hyperlinks to other resources that the user can easily access, for example by a mouse click or by tapping the screen in a web browser.
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