Hypertext 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.

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Understanding the Internet, HTTP, HTTPS and WWW