Chapter 1. What Is HTTP?
At a technical level, the World Wide Web is a difficult thing to comprehend, mainly because it is an intangible object. Most people have a general idea of what it is, at least from their perspective, but their interest quickly fades beyond that basic understanding. Despite this, the Web is something that is easily defined, and that definition will help explain the important role of HTTP.
If you were to create a medium of communication like the Web, assuming an existing network of computers such as the Internet, there are three major questions you would need to provide answers to in order to create this medium and make it useful to potential users:
How will users of this system locate content, or how will the providers ...
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