Http Basic

What is HTTP?

• HTTP is the protocol behind the World Wide Web.
• With nearly every web transaction, HTTP is invoked.
• The HTTP is a text based protocol, which means that all transferred data to the server as from the server is text based on a coding type (ex. UTF-8)..
• Included in the URL (Uniform Resource Locator) to reach a internet page .

  http://www.anycompany.com/index.html 

By understanding how HTTP works, you'll be able to:

• Manually query web servers and receive low-level information that typical web browsers hide from the user.
• With this information, you can better understand the configuration and capabilities of a particular server.
• You can better debug configuration errors with the server.
• Understand programming errors in programs invoked by the web server.
• Understand the interaction between web clients (browsers, robots, search engines, etc.) and web servers.
• Streamline web services to make better use of the protocol.