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HTTP
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English
Proper noun
en Internet networking en Hypertext Transfer Protocol the protocol used most commonly to transfer Web pages and accompanying data over the Internet.
1945 May 1996 Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0 Tim Berners-Lee T. Berners-Lee; R. Fielding; H. Frystyk The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.
Hyponyms
en HTTP/2 HTTPS
Derived terms
en HTTP cookie HTTP verb XmlHTTP
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