Saturday, January 18, 2014

HTTP definition

HTTP is stands for Hyper Text Transfer protocol, It is a application layer protocol under TCP/IP. Basically it used for send the request from client to web server and it displays the response in relative format which is arrived from server into client.

For example if user type some URL into location bar of browser then through the HTTP client sends the request to Web server, and display the particular content in browser which is responsed by web server to client.

HTTP ensure that how the request send to the server and how the responded data would be display into client.

For example in which format the request from browser should be send to server, Is it GET, POST, or HEAD, which is ensured by HTTP.