Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Hypertext Transfer Protocol is a TCP based Protocol that was designed in 1980 to allow CERN researchers to transfer files, Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) is used to transfer HTML code and text exceptionally fast with extremely low overhead.

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