HTTP functions as a request–response protocol in the client–server model. A web browser, for … See more

The term hypertext was coined by Ted Nelson in 1965 in the Xanadu Project, which was in turn inspired by Vannevar Bush's 1930s vision of the microfilm-based information retrieval and management "memex" … See more

HTTP is a stateless application-level protocol and it requires a reliable network transport connection to exchange data between client and server. In HTTP implementations, TCP/IP connections are used using … See more

HTTP provides multiple authentication schemes such as basic access authentication and digest access authentication which operate via a challenge–response mechanism whereby the server i… See more

HTTP is a stateless protocol. A stateless protocol does not require the web server to retain information or status about each user for the duration of multiple requests.
Some web applications need to manage user sessio… See more

Request messages are sent by a client to a target server.
A client sends request messages to the server, which consist of:
• a request line, consisting of the case-sensitive re… See more

A response message is sent by a server to a client as a reply to its former request message.
A server sends response messages to the client, which consist of:
• a … See more