What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?
Hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is a communications protocol that transfers information on intranets and the World Wide Web to retrieve and publish hypertext pages. While most people are familiar with HTTP because it is at the beginning of every web URL, many do not know why it is there. The hypertext transfer protocol is in place to send out the message that a particular web browser is looking for the particular web page at the address that follows the HTTP in the address bar of the web browser window. Yet the actual process of HTTP and the request it makes is much more complicated than what any visitor to a website actually sees. When the HTTP goes out, it is a response or request protocol between a client and a server to access a certain resource, which may be a web page or other graphic stored in the server as files. The client can be a number of things, such as a web browser, a search engine spider, or any other end-user tool, while the server is a storage area for a particular
