What is HTTP?
HTTP, short for HyperText Transfer Protocol, is the protocol for
transferring hypertext documents that makes the World Wide
Web possible. A standard web address (such as
http://www.yahoo.com/) is called a
URL; the prefix (http in the example)
indicates its protocol.
For more information on HTTP, see the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) HTTP Working Group page at:
http://www.ietf.org/dyn/wg/charter/httpbis-charter.html