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- HTTP - HyperText Transport Protocol
- Derived from MIME, on top of RFC 822, on...
- Has various problems
- Verbose
- HTTP/1.0's use of TCP is very poor, causing congestion: One TCP connection/URI fetched
- Browsers run N TCP connections in parallel, and may self-congest
- No separation of meta-data about content and arguments to methods
- Inadequate extensibility - no mandatory mechanism
- All in one ball of wax
