We are all very familiar with the term HTTP. We use it every day to access websites. HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol.<\/p>\n
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\nThis is the protocol used by your web browsers (Firefox, Chrome, IE etc) to talk to ‘Web servers’ (Apache, IIS etc.)<\/p>\n
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When the HTTP protocol was used by Tim Berners-Lee, a British physicist, to get linked resources called hypertext documents, the World Wide Web was born. That was in 1990.<\/p>\n
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There are two major standards for HTTP, HTTP\/1.0 & HTTP\/1.1, developed by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Internet Engineering Task Force.<\/p>\n
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HTTP is a request\/response standard.<\/p>\n
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In HTTP\/1.0, a separate connection is used for every document recovered. It means that if you access a page with a lot of images, then each image is retrieved from the server using a separate HTTP connection. The process of establishing a new connection is time consuming.<\/p>\n
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In HTTP\/1.1, the same connection may be used to download all the entities in a web page. It may therefore speed up the page load process.<\/p>\n
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