HTTP - Protocol

HTTP is a protocol created in 1989.

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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web. Hypertext is structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing text. Read more on Wikipedia...

HTTP Wikipedia page
HTTP docs
There are at least 0 HTTP repos on GitHub
HTTP first developed in The World Wide Web Consortium
PLDB estimates there are currently 772k job openings for HTTP programmers.
file extensions for HTTP include http
CodeMirror package for syntax highlighting HTTP
Pygments supports syntax highlighting for HTTP
GitHub supports syntax highlighting for HTTP
Indeed.com has 771,996 matches for "http developer".
See also: (12 related languages)FTP, SMTP, TLS, TCP, UDP, URL, HTML, CSS, ASCII, Gzip, REST, ISBN

Example from hello-world:

import http.server
import socketserver
from http import HTTPStatus


class Handler(http.server.SimpleHTTPRequestHandler):
    def do_GET(self):
        self.send_response(HTTPStatus.OK)
        self.end_headers()
        self.wfile.write(b'Hello World')


httpd = socketserver.TCPServer(('', 8000), Handler)
httpd.serve_forever()

Example from Wikipedia:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:38:34 GMT
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
Content-Encoding: UTF-8
Content-Length: 138
Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.3.7 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
ETag: "3f80f-1b6-3e1cb03b"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Connection: close

<html>
<head>
  <title>An Example Page</title>
</head>
<body>
  Hello World, this is a very simple HTML document.
</body>
</html>

Fun fact:

http://http://http://@http://http://?http://#http:// is a legitimate URL