CUTM1030 Study Guide - Hypertext Transfer Protocol, Hypertext, Plaintext

• School: Centurion University of Technology and Management - CUTM
• Department: Design
• Course: CUTM1030

Document Summary

1. explain the role of the http protocol in the architecture of the web. It is a protocol used to access the data on the world wide web (www). The http protocol can be used to transfer the data in the form of plain text, hypertext, audio, video, and so on. This protocol is known as hypertext transfer protocol because of its efficiency that allows us to use in a hypertext environment where there are rapid jumps from one document to another document. The http is meant for request/response depending on a client-server architecture where the user requests information through a web browser to the web server, which then responds to the requested data. The client of this client-server architecture asks for a request to a specific server through the http (tcp/ip connection) as a request method in the form of a url. It also contains a mime-like message that contains request modifier and client information.