HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol)
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TCP/IP HTTP was built in the early 1990s by Tim Berners-Lee who gave HTTP the functionality to ask for the contents of a Web Page from a Web Server & also to provide Server a way to return the contents of those files.
The default Web pages are stored in a file called home.htm in every Web Browser.
When you hit any website from a Web Browser then PC automatically sends a 'Get' request in it's HTTP Header (encapsulated by Application Layer), asking a Web Browser for a Web & if no Filename is mentioned the Server assumes that the default Web Page of that website is being requested.
In turn Server replies with a return code '200' in its HTTP Header meaning 'OK' & then another reply follows the actual Data but this time omitting the HTTP Header to avoid the wastage of Space.
Return codes are used by the Web Server to tell the Web Page whether the request worked or not.
CCNA 200-301 OCG, Volume 1, Pg. 20 - Wendell Odom .