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Glossary: IT Services Basics

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol)

Also written: HTTP, HTTP/1.0, HTTP/1.1

The protocol of the web, on port 80. The client sends a request and the server sends one response, each with a start line, headers, an empty line and a body.

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