What is HTTP
What is HTTP? The HyperText Transfer Protocol is the language used to communicate between web browsers and servers. In other words, it is pretty much the language one computer uses to ask another computer for documents. HTTP follows the client/server model. This is a structure that describes how a server provides resources and services to a client. When the client requests something from the server, the server can either accept of reject the connection. If the connection is accepted, the server establishes and maintains a connection with the client over a protocol just like HTTP. Think about HTTP is a set of rules for transferring files like text, images, sound, video and other multimedia files. Computers that communicate via the HTTP must speak the HTTP protocol. This brings me to talk about the request response cycle. Since we know that two computers are connected physically via the Internet, using the URL’s allows us to communicate with these servers. This means that HTTP uses ...