HTTP - Protocol

HTTP is a protocol created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee.

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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Hypertext is structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing text. Read more on Wikipedia...

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Early development of HTTP happened in W3C
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See also: (12 related languages) FTP, SMTP, TLS, TCP, UDP, URL, HTML, CSS, ASCII, Gzip, REST, ISBN
1 PLDB concepts link to HTTP: NCSA Mosaic

Example from hello-world:

import http.server
import socketserver
from http import HTTPStatus


class Handler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(HTTPStatus.OK)
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(b'Hello World')


httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(('', 8000), Handler)
httpd.serve_forever()

Example from Wikipedia:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:38:34 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Encoding: UTF-8
Content-Length: 138
Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.3.7 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
ETag: "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close

<html>
<head>
  <title>An Example Page</title>
</head>
<body>
  Hello World, this is a very simple HTML document.
</body>
</html>

Fun fact:

http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http:// is a legitimate URL