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HTTP

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The protocol browsers and servers use to exchange data.

HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless request-response protocol underpinning the web. Clients send requests with methods like GET and POST; servers respond with status codes (e.g. 200, 404) and a body. HTTPS adds TLS encryption.

Related Web terms

HTML

The standard markup language for web page structure.

 DOM

A tree representation of an HTML document the browser builds.

 API

A set of rules that lets software components communicate.

 JSON

A lightweight, text-based data-interchange format.

 Webhook

A user-defined HTTP callback triggered by an event.

 CSS

A language for styling the presentation of web pages.
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