HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is the application layer transport protocol on which the World Wide Web is based. Originally conceived in the late 1980s as a single-line text-based protocol, initially documented as HTTP/0.9 , its first fully functional iteration (v. 1.0) was documented in 1996 in RFC 1945.
As the use and expectations of the Internet have grown, so has the need to improve HTTP itself. Version 1.1 was documented in RFC 2068 in 1997 and RFC 2616 in 1999, and then in RFC (7230-7235) in 2014—a full decade and a half later! — Document message syntax/routing; semantics/content; conditional and scoped requests; caching; and authentication.
The current HTTP version is HTTP/2. It’s based on Google’s SPDY project, the first overhaul of the protocol, which was…
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