Much like a street address, a URL uniquely identifies every Web page. The "http" portion of the URL, which stands for "hypertext transfer protocol," provides the base for communication between your ...

As some of you are well aware, HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, what is commonly know as the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Work on HTTP/1.1 was completed in June ...

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 ...

Look at the address bar in your browser. See those letters at the front, "HTTP"? That stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol, the mechanism a browser uses to request information from a server and ...

One of the backend improvements in iOS 9 is a strengthening of app security when accessing data from webservers. The new App Transport Security (ATS) feature ensures that only connections encrypted ...

The web is about to get faster, with the introduction of the latest version of the HTTP protocol: HTTP/2. It’s been 17 years since the last update and so many things have changed in almost two decades ...

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 ...