Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

See Also: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

The text-based protocol that serves as the official language of the World Wide Web (WWW) . HTTP defines high-level commands, or methodssuch as GET and PUT—that browsers use to communicate with Web servers. The GET command requests a page of HTML data, a GIF file, or other resource from a Web server in preparation for displaying it in a browser window.