Communication Protocol

Web Communication Protocol HTTP 

Communicating systems use well-defined rules referred as communication protocol for exchanging information/data/resources.

These rules consist of details like data format, the way to locate the resources, error handling etc.

Followings are some example protocols:

• Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)
• File Transfer Protocol (FTP)
• User Datagram Protocol (UDP)
• Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP)
• Post Office Protocol (POP)
• Java remote method invocation (RMI)
• SOAP