WWW and HTTP | HTTP Protocol explained | World Wide Web | TechTerms

Learn world wide web, http protocol, http request message, and http response message.
World Wide Web is one of the network applications and it uses client-server architecture. HTTP or HyperText Transfer Protocol is the application layer protocol that is implemented in the client program and the server program. An example of a client program is a Web browser like Google Chrome. An example of a server program is a web server like Apache web server. HTTP uses TCP as its underlying transport protocol. HTTP request message has the request line, header lines, and entity body. HTTP response message has three parts Status line, Header line, and Entity body. HTTP is a stateless protocol because HTTP servers do not store any information about the clients.