HTTP, the Web Protocol
Get a brief introduction to HyperText Transfer Protocol and covers the anatomy of HTTP requests and responses.
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HTTP, which stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the technical foundation of the World Wide Web. It is a protocol, a language that allows two machines to communicate with each other.
HTTPS is the secured version of HTTP.
Technically speaking, HTTP is a pretty simple protocol based on textual commands.
Anatomy of an HTTP request
Let’s study the first part of the web exchange described previously: the request.
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