Notes

HTTP

1. Stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol.

2. It is the common language between the Clients and the Servers.

3. HTTP was proposed by Tim Berners Lee around 1991.

4. The motivation and high-level design goals for HTTP:

   1. File Transfer functionality.
   2. Ability to request an index search of a hypertext archive.
   3. Ability to refer the client to another server.

5. This makes it a very simple and telnet friendly protocol.

6. The request consisted of a single line, the GET method, and the path of the requested document.

7. The response will be a simple and single hypertext document.

8. Features of HTTP 0.9:

   1. Client-server, request-response protocol.
   2. Designed to transfer hypertext documents(HTML).
   3. The connection between the client and server is closed after every response.

HTTP 1.0