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Hyper Text Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

The Hypertext Transfer Protocol, or http, is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol.

It is also a wrapper for network communication, allowing it to be used directly with functions such as file_get_contents().

HTTP is related to HTTPS, the secure version of HTTP.

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