{"id":278,"date":"2014-02-22T12:18:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:18:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/?p=278"},"modified":"2014-02-22T12:18:20","modified_gmt":"2014-02-22T12:18:20","slug":"what-is-http","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-http","title":{"rendered":"What is HTTP?"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span><p class=\"lead\">The <strong>HTTP<\/strong> (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application protocol designed to enable communications between clients and servers, and the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.<br \/>\n<strong>HTTP<\/strong> provide a standard way of communication between client (browsers) and web servers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>HTTP<\/strong> works as a request-response protocol, the web browser may be the client, and an application on a computer that hosts a web site may be the server.<br \/>\nFor example when the client (browser) submits an HTTP request to the server, the server returns a response to the client with additional information.<\/p>\n<p>HTTP is a stateless protocol because each command is executed independently of the previous commands.<\/p>\n<p>From the browser, in order to access a URL you have to add the <strong>http:\/\/<\/strong> command before the URL address (http:\/\/www.example.com). These days you can skip it, and the browsers will add it for you automatically when you enter an address in the URL bar.<br \/>\nIf you want to access from the browser a <strong>HTTPS<\/strong> URL (Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure) you have to specify it manually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\"><\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute read<\/span><\/span>The HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application protocol designed to enable communications between clients and servers, and the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. HTTP provide a standard way of communication between client (browsers) and web servers. HTTP works as a request-response protocol, the web browser may be the client, and&#8230;  <a href=\"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/2014\/02\/what-is-http\" class=\"more-link\" title=\"Read What is HTTP?\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-automation","category-web-testing-books"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loadfocus.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}