Today, almost all computers around the world are connected to the World Wide Web or more commonly known as the internet. The internet serves as a place where everyone can get together, share information and communicate with each other among other things. It has essentially changed the lives of many.
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Understanding the Internet, HTTP, HTTPS and WWW
Friday, June 5th, 2009Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a protocol for distributed, manual hypermedia information system. In the internet the use of HTTP is a retrieving system of inter-linked resources led to the establishment of the World Wide Web. The development of this protocol was initially coordinated by the WWW Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force. HTTP can simply be defined as a request and response standard of a client and a server. Here, client is defined as the end user and the server is defined as the web site.
