HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Adopt
Formal standard
IETF
Since 1991
Judgement: Adopt
Universal application transport; nobody decides to use it.
The application protocol of the web, and the universal transport beneath REST APIs, OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC (HTTP/2), Iceberg REST catalogs, and OpenLineage events.
Most data interfaces today are some flavour of "HTTP plus a schema" — which is why HTTP is a load-bearing assumption in almost any modern data architecture.
At a glance
- Category
- Interconnection
- Governance
- IETF
- Status
- Stable; HTTP/3 (RFC 9114) is current
- First released
- 1991
Links
Related standards
Other standards in Interconnection.
- Delta Sharing — Delta Sharing Protocol
- FTP / SFTP — File Transfer Protocol / SSH File Transfer Protocol
See HTTP in context
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