HTTP

Hypertext Transfer Protocol: the Web's request–response protocol for fetching a resource by its URL. Berners-Lee's first version was written up in 1991; HTTP/1.0 and 1.1 followed as IETF RFCs. Looking up a URI to get data about the thing it names depends on it.

Read the specification ↗ httpwg.org

part of

• World Wide Web project 1990 [src]

created by

• Tim Berners-Lee person b. 1955 [src]

contributors

• Roy Fielding person b. 1965 [src]
  HTTP/1.1

Sources

• https://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html