An HTTP request is the way Internet communications platforms such as web browsers ask for the information they need to load a website. Each HTTP request made across the Internet carries with it a series of encoded data that carries different types of information. A typical HTTP request contains: HTTP version type; a URL; an HTTP method; HTTP ... More @Wikipedia
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