Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are two methods that allow you to upload or download files and pages from the Internet. The two have overlapping ...

What Google wants for the web, Google gets for the web. SPDY was born from Google’s dissatisfaction with latency and slow load times using HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol), a standards-based ...

The next version of the HTTP web protocol has been approved, and the industry group behind it claims that HTTP/2 could help boost internet browsing speeds. HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) is the ...

Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

A lot of people end up getting confused when they see two different URL’s one as HTTP and the other as HTTPS. So what is the difference between these two? In this post, I will discuss the evolution of ...

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