HTTP

English

Proper noun

HTTP

1. (Internet, networking) Initialism of Hypertext Transfer Protocol (the protocol used most commonly to transfer Web pages and accompanying data over the Internet)
   • 1996 May, T. Berners-Lee, R. Fielding, H. Frystyk, “Hypertext Transfer Protocol – HTTP/1.0”, in RFC Editor, →ISSN, RFC 1945:

     The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol with the lightness and speed necessary for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

Hyponyms

• HTTP/2
• HTTPS

 

Derived terms

• HTTP cookie
• HTTP verb
• XmlHTTP

 

Further reading

• HTTP on Wikipedia.Wikipedia