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Technology
20 related topics
Message format
22 related topics
History
11 related topics
Overview
73 related topics
Key facts & relationships
High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.
- Developed by
- Initially CERN; IETF, W3C
- International standard
- RFC 9110 HTTP Semantics · RFC 9111 HTTP Caching · RFC 9112 HTTP/1.1 · RFC 9113 HTTP/2 · RFC 7541 HTTP/2: HPACK Header Compression
- Introduced
- 1991; 35 years ago (1991)
Topics to explore
A structured outline of related entities, concepts and subtopics. Open any item to build a new map centered on it.Browse the full topic structure. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.
Overview
- Application layer
- Internet protocol suite
- Hypermedia
- World Wide Web
- Hypertext
- Hyperlinks Hyperlink
- Mouse Computer mouse
- Web browsers Web browser
- Request–response
- Client–server model
- HTML
- Client Client (computing)
- Web server
- Hosting Host (network)
- Websites Website
- Server Server (computing)
- User agent
- Web crawlers Web crawler
- Voice browsers Voice browser
- Mobile apps Mobile app
- Software
- Web cache
- Upstream servers Upstream server
- Proxy servers Proxy server
- Private network
- Hop-by-hop Hop-by-hop transport
- End-to-end End-to-end principle
- Web resource
- Uniform resource locator
- Uniform Resource Identifier
Versions
- HTTP/2
- HTTP/3
- Connection Connection-oriented communication
- Scripts Client-side scripting
- Stylesheets Cascading Style Sheets
- TCP/IP Internet Protocol suite
- Encrypted Encryption
- Head-of-line blocking
- Polling Polling (computer science)
- QUIC
Use
Technology
- Transport layer
- User Datagram Protocol
- Multicast
- Unicast
- UPnP
- Simple Service Discovery Protocol
- Local area network
- Stateless protocol
- Port 80 TCP port
- Application session Session (computer science)
- HTTP cookies HTTP cookie
- Variables Variable (computer science)
- Web form Form (web)
- Login
- Logout
- Authentication
- Basic access authentication
- Digest access authentication
- Secure Hypertext Transfer Protocol
- HTTP/1.1 Upgrade header
Message format
- Binary protocol Communication protocol
- ASCII
- Text Plain text
- Carriage return
- Line feed
- Header field HTTP request header field
- Browser cookies
- Do-Not-Track
- Global Privacy Control
- User User (computing)
- Name-value pair
- Whitespace Whitespace (computer science)
- Space Space (punctuation)
- Tab Tab character
- Www.example.com Example.com
- DNS Domain Name System
- IP address
- Virtual hosting
- ETag HTTP ETag
- Internet media type
- Webserver
- Gzip
Similar protocols
- Gopher protocol Gopher (protocol)
- SPDY
- Gemini protocol Gemini (protocol)
History
- Tim Berners-Lee
- CERN
- User interface
- Request for Comments
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- World Wide Web Consortium
- The first web server CERN httpd
- Dave Raggett
- Multiplexing
- Chromium Chromium (web browser)
- Routers Router (computing)
Advanced semantic analysis
Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.
Map overview Semantic statistics
Number of nodes, edges, triples, density and central hubs. Use it to gauge the size and connectivity of the map.HTTP
Nodes154
Edges153
Triples252
Avg. degree1.99
Density0.012987
Components1
How this topic connects Entity context
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HTTP
Top relations
related to history · 17
HTTP → Berners-Lee, CERN, Comments, Development, GET, HTML, HTTP Request, IETF, Internet Engineering Task Force, RFC, That, The, Tim Berners-Lee, W3C, World Wide Web, World Wide Web Consortium, WorldWideWeb
related to Use · 15
HTTP → ALPN, Application-Layer Protocol Negotiation, Chrome, Cloudflare, Firefox, HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, In, It, Like HTTP/2, QUIC, TCP, TLS, Transport Layer Security
related to 2014 updates to HTTP/1.1 · 14
HTTP → Authentication, Caching, Conditional Requests, Content, HTTP Working Group, HTTP/1, Hypertext Transfer Protocol, In June, Message Syntax, Obsolete, Range Requests, RFC, Routing, Semantics
related to Transport layer · 14
HTTP → HTTP/1, HTTP/3, HTTPMU, HTTPU, QUIC, Simple Service Discovery Protocol, SSDP, TCP, The, They, Transmission Control Protocol, UDP, UPnP, User Datagram Protocol
see also · 14
HTTP → Application Protocol, Architectural, Capability, Comparison, Computer, Content-addressable, Deprecated, File System, Method, Serving, Specialized Internet, System, URIDigest, WebWebSocket
related to Updates and refactoring in 2022 · 13
HTTP → Extensible Prioritization Scheme, Field Compression, HTTP Caching, HTTP Semantics, HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, In June, Internet Standard, Proposed Standard, QPACK, RFC, See
International standard · 11
HTTP → .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r…, RFC 7541 HTTP/2: HPACK Header Compression, RFC 8164 HTTP/2: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2, RFC 8336 HTTP/2: The ORIGIN HTTP/2 Frame, RFC 8441 HTTP/2: Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2, RFC 9110 HTTP Semantics, RFC 9111 HTTP Caching, RFC 9112 HTTP/1.1, RFC 9113 HTTP/2, RFC 9114 HTTP/3, RFC 9204 HTTP/3: QPACK: Field Compression
related to Example · 9
HTTP → DNS, HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, IP, It, The, TheHostheader, While
related to HTTP/1.1 · 9
HTTP → End-user, Host, HTTP/1, In January, In March, Internet, June, RFC, Since
related to Message format · 9
HTTP → At, HPACK, HTTP/1, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, Later, QPACK, The, This
Important terminology Word statistics
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Important terminology
server web protocol request client rfc connection response header tcp requests user servers resource used methods method field browsers content
Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples
Extracted RDF-like relationships with confidence and source. The table includes structured facts and lower-confidence contextual relations.| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| HTTP | Developed by | Initially CERN; IETF, W3C | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | .mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:r… | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 9110 HTTP Semantics | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 9111 HTTP Caching | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 9112 HTTP/1.1 | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 9113 HTTP/2 | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 7541 HTTP/2: HPACK Header Compression | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 8164 HTTP/2: Opportunistic Security for HTTP/2 | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 8336 HTTP/2: The ORIGIN HTTP/2 Frame | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 8441 HTTP/2: Bootstrapping WebSockets with HTTP/2 | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 9114 HTTP/3 | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | International standard | RFC 9204 HTTP/3: QPACK: Field Compression | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | Introduced | 1991; 35 years ago (1991) | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | Website | httpwg.org/specs/ | 1.00 | infobox |
| HTTP | is a | foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web | 0.90 | text |
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Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods
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Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges
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