Hypertext Transfer Protocol (usually abbreviated to HTTP) is a communications protocol. It is used to send and receive webpages and files on the internet. It was developed by Tim Berners-Lee and is now coordinated by the W3C. HTTP/1.1 is the most-used version today, and RFC 2616 completely explains how it should work. More @Wikipedia
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