HyperText Transfer Protocol, or HTTP, is the underlying and primary communications protocol used by the World Wide Web (WWW); other Internet protocols include File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Gopher, and Telnet. HTTP was first implemented in 1990 by Tim...

DHCP · DNS · FTP · Gopher · HTTP · IMAP4 · IRC · NNTP · XMPP · POP3 · SIP · SMTP · SNMP · SSH · TELNET · RPC · RTCP · RTSP ·...

WHAT IS ITS PURPOSE? REST is a proposed style for thinking about and designing Web applications. It describes a cohesive, resource-centric view of resources published on the Web and how to follow the intent and specifics of HTTP very closely to pattern...

We're all familiar with HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol). It's the application-level protocol that lets the World Wide Web transfer and manage the types of collaborative and hypermedia content that have made it such a great success. While the 1.0 version was a good...

The Internet was a mere 19 months old when engineers first developed a file-sharing system still in wide use today.Although many of the technologies from those early days eventually faded away, replaced by newer developments such as the World Wide Web and search engines, file...