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 ...

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 ...

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The Electronic Business XML (ebXML) standards body announced in March that it will incorporate Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) into its messaging specifications. According to Gartner, this move ...

Google laid the groundwork for the latest improvements to the HTTP protocol that has dominated Web applications and RESTful APIs for the past 20 years. This work resulted in the release of the HTTP/2 ...

Creating a custom Model Context Protocol (MCP) client using Gemini 2.5 Pro provides an opportunity to design a highly adaptable and efficient communication solution. By combining a robust backend, a ...

A lot of people end up getting confused when they see two different URL’s one as HTTP and the other as HTTPS. So what is the difference between these two? In this post, I will discuss the evolution of ...

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 ...