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HTTP

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol is the native method of transferring documents on the Web. It is the protocol most often used for accessing HTML documents. An HTTP URL has the syntax:

    http://host[:port]/path

The standard port for HTTP servers is port 80; if the server is listening on this port you do not have to specify the port number explicitly. Examples of HTTP URLs are:

    http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Tools/Overview.html

    http://wintermute.ncsa.uiuc.edu:8080/auth-tutorial/

Spinning the Web by Andrew Ford
© 1995 International Thomson Publishing
© 2002 Andrew Ford and Ford & Mason Ltd
Note: this HTML document was generated in December 1994 directly from the LaTeX source files using LaTeX2HTML. It was formatted into our standard page layout using the Template Toolkit. The document is mainly of historical interest as obviously many of the sites mentioned have long since disappeared.