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- HTTP (Hypertext transfer protocol)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A computer protocol for transferring information across the Net
in such a way as to meet the demands of a global hypertext system.
Part of the original design of the Web, continued in a W3C
activity, and now a HTTP 1.1 IETF draft standard.
- IP (Internet protocol)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
The protocol that governs how computers send packets across the
Internet. Designed by Vint Cerf and Bob Khan. (IP may also stand
for intellectual property; see IPR.)
- NNTP (Network news transfer protocol)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A protocol that defines how news articles are passed around
between computers. Each computer passes an article to any of its
neighbors that have not yet got it.
- protocol
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A language and a set of rules that allow computers to interact
in a well-defined way. Examples are FTP, HTTP, and NNTP.
- protocol
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From Web Services Glossary (2004-02-11) | Glossary for this source
A set of formal rules describing how to transmit data,
especially across a network. Low level protocols define the electrical
and physical standards to be observed, bit- and byte-ordering and the
transmission and error detection and correction of the bit
stream. High level protocols deal with the data formatting, including
the syntax of messages, the terminal to computer dialogue, character
sets, sequencing of messages etc. [FOLDOC]
- TCP (Transmission control protocol)
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From Glossary of "Weaving the Web" (1999-07-23) | Glossary for this source
A computer protocol that allows one computer to send the other
a continuous stream of information by breaking it into packets and
reassembling it at the other end, resending any packets that get
lost in the Internet. TCP uses IP to send the packets, and the two
together are referred to as TCP/IP.
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