The Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems.

Hypertext is text displayed on a computer or other electronic device with references ( hyperlinks ) to other text that the reader can immediately access, usually by a mouse click, keypress sequence or by touching the screen.

Hypertext is the underlying concept defining the structure of the World Wide Web.

Among the top academic conferences for new research in hypertext is the annual ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia ( ACM SIGWEB Hypertext Conference page ).

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure ( HTTPS ) is a widely used communications protocol for secure communication over a computer network, with especially wide deployment on the Internet.

Technically, it is not a protocol in itself ; rather, it is the result of simply layering the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) on top of the SSL / TLS protocol, thus adding the security capabilities of SSL / TLS to standard HTTP communications.

While PHP originally stood for Personal Home Page, it is now said to stand for PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a recursive acronym.

It is a text-based protocol, incorporating many elements of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) and the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol ( SMTP ).

Currently, the World Wide Web is based mainly on documents written in Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML ), a markup convention that is used for coding a body of text interspersed with multimedia objects such as images and interactive forms.

The primary function of a web server is to deliver web pages on the request to clients using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ).

A webpage is a document, typically written in plain text interspersed with formatting instructions of Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML, XHTML ).

It is primarily coded in Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML ).

* Most recursive acronyms are recursive on the first letter, which is therefore an arbitrary choice, often selected for reasons of humour, ease of pronunciation, or consistency with an earlier acronym that used the same letters for different words, such as PHP: PHP Hypertext Preprocessor, which was originally " Personal home page ".

Hypertext is text with hyperlinks.

It uses the HTML element " a " with the attribute " href " ( HREF is an abbreviation for " Hypertext REFerence ") and optionally also the attributes " title ", " target ", and " class " or " id ":

Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning ( WebDAV ) is an extension of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) that facilitates collaboration between users in editing and managing documents and files stored on World Wide Web servers.

A text-based system that can include groups of documents with hyperlinks among them is known as a Hypertext System.

IPP is implemented using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) and inherits all of the HTTP streaming and security features.

Examples of stateless protocols include the Internet Protocol ( IP ) which is the foundation for the Internet, and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) which is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

In particular, the Hypertext Transfer Protocol identifies the client software originating the request, using a " User-Agent " header, even when the client is not operated by a user.

The controller of a botnet is able to direct the activities of these compromised computers through communication channels formed by standards-based network protocols such as IRC ( Internet Relay Chat ) and HTTP ( Hypertext Transfer Protocol ).

Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ) is stateless: a client computer running a web browser must establish a new Transmission Control Protocol ( TCP ) network connection to the web server with each new HTTP GET or POST request.

It was formally defined as such by the Internet Engineering Task Force ( IETF ) with the mid-1993 publication of the first proposal for an HTML specification: " Hypertext Markup Language ( HTML )" Internet-Draft by Berners-Lee and Dan Connolly, which included an SGML Document Type Definition to define the grammar.

; June 1993: Hypertext Markup Language was published by the IETF IIIR Working Group as an Internet-Draft ( a rough proposal for a standard ).

; November 1993: HTML + was published by the IETF as an Internet-Draft and was a competing proposal to the Hypertext Markup Language draft.

*( en ) Gavotte with Doubles Hypermedia by Jeff Hall & Tim Smith at the BinAural Collaborative Hypertext – Shockwave Player required

* Free scores of The Four Seasons by Antonio Vivaldi at Mutopia Project nau. edu / BinAural Collaborative Hypertext

* Art & Language: Blurting in A & L online Hypertext version of a complete print work of 1973 by American members of Art & Language, with articles and a discussion forum.

* A Hypertextual Study of Velázquez's Las meninas, 1996 by Joan Campàs Montaner, professor of Digital art and Hypertext of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya.

Hypertext systems support the decision process by relieving the user of the significant effort it takes to relate and remember things.

The Hypertext Editing System, or HES, was an early hypertext research project conducted at Brown University in 1967 by Andries van Dam, Ted Nelson, and several Brown students.

* Saint Patrick's Confessio Hypertext Stack a project by the Royal Irish Academy freely provides digital facsimiles of the Patrician Documents in the Book of Armagh.

Hypertext fiction is a genre of electronic literature, characterized by the use of hypertext links which provide a new context for non-linearity in " literature " and reader interaction.

* New Media Poetry, Hypertext and Experimental Literature Bibliography compiled by Eduardo Kac for Leonardo / ISAST

* The Seafarer: A Hypertext Edition by Corey Owen.

As with all files transferred using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, web bugs are requested by sending the server their URL, and possibly the URL of the page containing them.

* Hypertext critical edition of the Epigrammata of John Owen ( Ioannis Audoenus ) by Dana F. Sutton, The University of California, Irvine, 1999

* New Collaborative Learning Environments: The Convergence of Hermeneutics and Hypertext by Virgil Henry Storr

One of the web's first online diaries was " A Hypertext Journal " ( 1996 ) by artists Karen Guthrie and Nina Pope, who followed the route of Boswell & Johnson's " Tour of the Western Isles " whilst responding to ongoing requests and interactions with their remote online audience.

Afternoon was first offered to the public as a demonstration of the hypertext authoring system Storyspace, announced in 1987 at the first Association for Computing Machinery Hypertext conference in a paper by Michael Joyce and Jay David Bolter.

Usually, such software programs simulate human exploration of the World Wide Web by either implementing low-level Hypertext Transfer Protocol ( HTTP ), or embedding a fully-fledged web browser, such as Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox.