HTTP/1.1, the dominant HTTP protocol for creating Web applications since the early 1990s, led to the development of REST API interfaces for server-to-server and mobile communication. But a number of ...

Google proposes SPDY, a new application protocol running on top of SSL, a protocol to replace HTTP which is considered to introduce latencies. They have already created a prototype with a web server a ...

The protocol distinguishes between 4 types of transactions, so it has 4 different types of state machines: client INVITE, client non-INVITE, server INVITE and server non-INVITE.

These messages have HTTP-like headers and JSON-RPC content, and they can originate from the client or server. The JSON-RPC protocol defines requests, responses, and notifications and a few basic ...

C# Corner HTTP Basics for REST-Based App Development Go inside the protocol that's the backbone for today's modern, cloud-based applications. By Patrick Steele 12/23/2013 ...

With the recent explosion of WebSocket server implementations, a lot of questions have come up about how HTML5 Web Sockets deal with proxy servers, firewalls, and load-balancing routers.

The client wraps a method call in SOAP/XML, which is then posted over HTTP to the server. The XML request is parsed to read the method name and parameters passed and delegated for processing.

HTTP/3 breaks from HTTP/2 by adopting the QUIC protocol over TCP. Here's a first look at the new standard and what it means for web developers.