HyperText Transfer Protocol.



A protocol in the [TCPIP] suite, originally designed by Tim Berners-Lee, defined in RFC 1945 as:

"an application-level protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. It is a generic, stateless, protocol which can be used for    many tasks beyond its use for hypertext, such as name servers and distributed object management systems, through extension of its request methods, error codes and headers. A feature of HTTP is the typing and negotiation of data representation, allowing systems to be built independently of the data being transferred."



(http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.txt Version 1.0)

(http://www.cse.ohio-state.edu/cgi-bin/rfc/rfc1945.html Version 1.1)