Why it matters: HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the system that web browsers use to talk to servers, and it's built using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP). TCP has many features that make it ...

Transmission Control Protocol carries the vast majority of the data transmitted across both the public Internet and private intranets. Web sessions using HTTP, file transfers, file sharing and system ...

The next version of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)—the network protocol that defines how browsers talk to Web servers—is going to make a major break from the versions in use today. Today’s ...

Answer by Keith Winstein on Quora, A lot of people ask this question and think in these terms, but here's a different point of view. TCP and UDP are not at the same level of abstraction and they're ...