HTTP
[Internet] Acronym for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. The protocol maintained by the World Wide Web Consortium for communicating between servers and clients to exchange HTML documents across the Internet.
HTTP operates at the highest layer of the OSI Model, the Application layer; but the security protocol operates at a lower sublayer, encrypting an HTTP message prior to transmission and decrypting a message upon arrival.
HTTP (Hypertext transmission protocol) - The language by which computers in the World Wide Web communicate with one another.
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- Apache HTTP Server [29];
- PHP [30];
- MapServer CGI (Common Gateway Interface); ...
XML (amenable to HTTP POST/SOAP)
Keyword-Value pairs (amenable to HTTP GET/Remote procedure call)
In the taxonomy of Web Services, WFS is best categorized as a non-RESTful RPC type service.
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WFS delivers GML representations of simple geospatial features in response to queries from HTTP clients. Clients access geographic feature data through WFS by submitting a request for just those features that are needed for an application.
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
Web software is designed around a distributed client-server architecture. A Web browser is client software that can send requests for documents to any Web server.
Spatial Database Catalogs and Libraries are implemented through use of a consistent index and search strategy based on the Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP) and Z39.50 Search and Retrieve protocols.
To access the site data, simply click to dowload the specific country of interest (either using the HTTP or FTP server). The zip file (generally less than 5 MB) contains a single text file, identified by the same country code listed on the website.
This is a SOAP Web service that mobile clients use to communicate over any Internet connection that supports HTTP access.
SELECTserver is based on standard Microsoft technologies and Web-based protocols. Its Web Services architecture assures users they'll have a secure, reliable connection to SELECTserver through communications over HTTP and SSL.
 See also: Information, Software, Access, Server, Network
  
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