Presentation on
Protocols
By
Komal Singh
WWW(World Wide Web)
• The World Wide Web is abbreviated as WWW and is commonly known as the
web.
• The WWW was initiated by CERN (European library for Nuclear Research) in
1989.
• WWW can be defined as the collection of different websites around the world,
containing different information shared via local servers(or computers).
• Components of the Web: There are 3 components of the web:
• Uniform Resource Locator (URL): serves as a system for resources on the web.
• HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP): specifies communication of browser and
server.
• Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML): defines the structure, organisation and
content of a webpage.
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• A URL is a type of uniform resource identifier and is address of a
resource on the World Wide Web and the protocol used to access it.
• It is used to indicate the location of a web resource to access the web
pages.
• For example, to visit the javatpoint website, you will go to the URL
www.pdpu.com, which is the URL for the pdpuwebsite.
• It is only used for locating web pages.
• In URL, the scheme must be a protocol such as FTP, HTTP, HTPPS, and
more.
HTTP(Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
• HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol.
• It is a protocol used to access the data on the World Wide Web (www).
• The HTTP protocol can be used to transfer the data in the form of plain
text, hypertext, audio, video, and so on.
• This protocol is known as HyperText Transfer Protocol because of its
efficiency that allows us to use in a hypertext environment where there
are rapid jumps from one document to another document.
• The default port number is 80 , for communication.
• No encryption is present in HTTP websites.
HTTPS(Hyper text transfer protocol
Secure)
• HTTPS is an abbreviation of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure. It is a
secure extension or version of HTTP.
• This protocol is mainly used for providing security to the data sent
between a website and the web browser.
• It is widely used on the internet and used for secure communications.
• This protocol uses the 443 port number for communicating the data.
• Both Encryption and decryption exist on HTTPS websites.