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4 unusual facts about HyperText Transfer Protocol


Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Tim Berners-Lee first proposed the "WorldWideWeb" project — now known as the World Wide Web.

Idempotence

See also HyperText Transfer Protocol.

In the HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), idempotence and safety are the major attributes that separate HTTP verbs.

Igor Sysoev

Sysoev is best known as the creator and developer of nginx (pronounced Engine X), a HTTP, reverse proxy, and e-mail proxy server.


CouchDB

REST uses the HTTP methods POST, GET, PUT and DELETE for the four basic CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) operations on all resources.

KIO

KIO slaves are programs that provide support for individual protocols (e.g. HTTP, FTP, SMB, SSH, FISH, SFTP, SVN, TAR).

Ldirectord

Ldirectord monitors the health of the real servers by periodically requesting a known URL and checking that the response contains an expected string.

SOAP

It relies on XML Information Set for its message format, and usually relies on other Application Layer protocols, most notably Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) or Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP), for message negotiation and transmission.

Unisys OS 2200 communications

WebTS, the OS 2200 Web Transaction Server, is a full implementation of the HTTP and HTTPS protocol stacks.


see also

HTTP Secure

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) is a communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Internet.