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By Wendy Boswell, About.com

Definition: The acronym HTTP stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protocol - the technology used to communicate between web servers and web users. For more information on HTTP and HTTPS, I invite you to read my article titled What is HTTPS? What does HTTPS Stand For?.

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