HTTP

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The HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) protocol is one of the most used protocols on the Internet. It's a protocol on top of TCP that was originally meant as a way to provide HTML pages but has been expanded to serve any kind of file and allow for interactivity through POST commands.

The HTTP protocol is one of the most firewall and proxy friendly protocols due to the wide use of the protocol. HTTP is a stateless protocol that works in request-response pairs. While previous versions of the protocol closed the connection between requests, newer versions and their implementations can keep the connection alive for a while to allow for multiple requests after each other without the overhead of constant reconnecting.

RemObjects SDK can expose services over the HTTP protocol, which is the most preferred way of exposing services when there is no control over the client setup, which could involve blocking access to non-standard ports and proxy servers. The WinInet client channel can make use of the Internet Explorer proxy settings, making the user experience as transparent as possible.

See Also

• RFC 2616 The HTTP protocol RFC.