Appendix B Hypertext Transfer Protocol; About Hypertext Transfer Protocol (Http) - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 04-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

This appendix provides a short introduction to the HyperText Transfer Protocol
(HTTP). For more information on HTTP, see the Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) home page at
http://www.ietf.org/home.html
This appendix contains the following sections:
•

About HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

• Requests
• Responses
About HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a protocol (a set of rules that describe
how information is exchanged on a network) that allows a web browser and a web
server to "talk" to each other using the ISO Latin1 alphabet, which is ASCII with
extensions for European languages.
HTTP is based on a request/response model. The client connects to the server and
sends a request to the server. The request contains the following: request method,
URI, and protocol version. The client can then send additional header information.
The server's response includes protocol version, status code, followed by a header
that contains server information, additional information headers, and then the
requested data. The connection is then closed.
HyperText Transfer Protocol
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