On the Chromium blog, Mike Belshe and Roberto Peon write about an early-stage research project called SPDY ("speedy"). Unhappy with the performance of the venerable hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP), ...

Hypertext transfer protocol, or HTTP, and file transfer protocol, known as FTP, are two methods that allow you to upload or download files and pages from the Internet. The two have overlapping ...

There are two standard ways to transmit files over the Internet. The first is to use the HTTP POST verb to transmit files (or just plain data) to a receptor, which then saves them on the remote server ...