HTTP Terms

• Connection - A virtual circuit created at the netowrk model transport layer.
• HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol.
• Message - A sequence of octets used as a basic unit of HTTP communication.
• MIME - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions are used to specify file types as used by the HTTP protocol.
• Request - A request by a client computer usually for a page or file.
• Response - The server response to a HTTP request that provides the requested item.
• Transaction - The request and response combination which makes up a single interaction between the client browser and the web server.
• URI - Uniform Resource Identifier.