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HTML

HyperText Markup Language

Description

The Internet is a physical computer network supporting communication between endpoints.

The World-Wide Web is a global collection of resources, hosted on servers, and accessed using their unique endpoint identifiers via web browser client software, as described by the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP).

HTTP is a standard protcol outlining how endpoints communicate over the Internet. It is a client-server model using request-response transactions.

Request Actions

  • GET - retrieve resource
  • POST: - send data for processing
  • PUT: - modify existing resource
  • DELETE: - remove resource

Response Codes

  • 200 OK - Success
  • 400 Not Found
  • 500 Internal Server Error

Request/Response Headers

  • content meta
  • authn data
  • text, including links to other docs or resources

Resources

  • accessable via URL form of URI