HTTP

HTTP is an acronym for “HyperText Transfer Protocol.” HTTP is an Internet communications standard (protocol) which permits access to websites from a web browser and requests for information from the web pages on a server. The term “http” appears at the beginning of most Web addresses, and designates that the following alphanumeric character string is a Web address.


 * “Because Web servers are linked to the Internet through a common communications protocol, known as hypertext transfer protocol (‘HTTP’), a user can move seamlessly between documents, regardless of their location; when a user viewing a document located on one server selects a link to a document located elsewhere, the browser will automatically contact the second server and display the document.”