What is HTTP(S)?

What is HTTP?

• HyperText Transfer Protocol.
• Developed by Tim Berner’s Lee between 1989-1991
• It is the set of rules used for communicating with webservers for the transmitting of webpage data.

What is HTTPS?

• HyperText Transfer Protocol Secure
• It is a secure version of HTTP.
• data is encrypted
• Stops other peoples seeing your data as well it gives assurance that you are talking to the right webserver.

Request and Responses

What is a URL?(Uniform Resource Locator)

• it is an instruction on how to access resources on the internet.
• URL looks like with all of its features (it does not use all features in every request).

• Scheme: This instructs on what protocol to use for accessing the resource such as HTTP, HTTPS, FTP (File Transfer Protocol).
• User: Some services require authentication to log in, you can put a username and password into the URL to log in.
• Host: The domain name or IP address of the server you wish to access.
• Port: The Port that you are going to connect to, usually 80 for HTTP and 443 for HTTPS, but this can be hosted on any port between 1 - 65535.
• Path: The file name or location of the resource you are trying to access.