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by jessikins on March 16th, 2007

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What does http stand for?

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  • by Chosun One on March 16th, 2007

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    hyper text transfer protocol

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  • by james123 on June 2nd, 2009

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    HTTP stands for "Hyper Text Transfer Protocol". Putting it before the site name tells your browser what format to expect the page it will load to be in. If it is not included, the browser assuming http by default. http means that it is a standard web site with links (hyper text) on it

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  • by houseofdesigners on October 6th, 2009

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    Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.[1] Its use for retrieving inter-linked resources, called hypertext documents, led to the establishment of the World Wide Web in 1990 by English physicist Tim Berners-Lee. There are two major versions, HTTP/1.0 that uses a separate connection for every document and HTTP/1.1 that can reuse the same connection to download, for instance, images for the just served page. Hence HTTP/1.1 may be faster as it takes time to set up the connections.

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  • by Ghoul on June 3rd, 2009

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    HTTP is an abbreviation of the three-word phrase Hypertext Transfer Protocol... which referes to the conventions needed to enable computers to display certain types of web-content.

    The abbreviation comes from HyperText Transfer Protocol.

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