HTTP

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Entry

HTTP

Area

Internet Transport Standards

Standard

HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) standard.

Standardisation

Versions

HTTP/1.1.

Maturity

HTTP is part of the core Web infrastructure. HTTP/1.1 has been available since 1999.

Risk Assessment

Support for HTTP is provided by all Web servers. It should be noted that a small number of Web application environments may produce invalid HTTP headers, which can cause problems for some user agents.

Take-up Elsewhere

Further Information

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1, <http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html>, W3C
• HTTP, <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Http>, Wikipedia

Author

Brian Kelly, UKOLN

Contributors

Date Created

22 July 2005. Checked on 6 October 2006.

Version

v1

A standards entry for HTTP is also available in the eReSS Wiki