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 ...

There are two main HTTP protocols: Version 1.0 and Version 1.1. I could spend an entire article going over the differences between the two. For brevity's sake, the key takeaway is that HTTP 1.1 was ...

More than likely, you’ve already been using a software-development tool that takes advantage of the Language Server Protocol (LSP), but didn’t even realize it. LSP is designed to facilitate support of ...

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A computer that runs a website. Using the HTTP protocol, the Web server delivers Web pages to browsers as well as other data files to Web-based applications. The Web server includes the hardware, ...

Whenever you use an ATM to check your balance or withdraw some money, you are actually participating in a client-server interaction with a computer on your bank's network. A client-server network ...

Last Wednesday, terminal vendor Wyse Technology unveiled its latest salvo in the "thin" vs. "fat" client wars, the Virtual Desktop Accelerator. While Wyse still makes terminals, it has also gotten ...

HTTP/2-enabled DDoS attacks are the largest Cloudflare and Google have seen and were launched from a relatively small botnet. Over the past two months attackers have been abusing a feature of the HTTP ...

Google updated their Googlebot Developers Support Page to reflect that Google is now able to try downloading pages via the latest HTTP/2 protocol. This is effective November 2020. The Googlebot ...