Kinds of URLs

Many kinds of URLs are defined by the Uniform Resource Locator specification. This post describes some of the more popular URLs and some situations to look out for when using them. HTTP HTTP URLs are by far the most common type of URLs because they point to other documents on the Web. HTTP is the protocol … Read more

The HTTP Protocol

The hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) is the core communications protocol used to access the World Wide Web and is used by all of today’s web applications. It is a simple protocol that was originally developed for retrieving static text-based resources, and has since been extended and leveraged in various ways to enable it to support the … Read more