Hypertext Transfer Protocol or HTTP is the protocol behind the World Wide Web. It is a system that hyperlinks geographically distributed multimedia documents.
HTTP is behind every request for a web document or graphic, every click of a hypertext link and every submission of a form.
The HTTP allows ‘documents’ to be created from multiple different text and image files, where each of these files may be stored on a different computer.
The web is about distributing information over the internet, and HTTP is the protocol used to do so. The client and servers interact with each other using the HTTP.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol is nowadays so widely used that word processing software like Microsoft Word automatically assumes the user intent to insert a hyperlink into a document whenever the user type a character string of web address.
Microsoft word automatically underlines the hyperlink, shades the text blue and underlines it.
What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol?
