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What language does this server speak?

HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol. The reason it is used with web addresses is becuase every different kind of communication on the Internet requires a different protocol.

Browsers access information from remote servers much differently than say, a File Transfer client does. For this reason, protocols were established so that servers could understand exactly what it is the client wants.

HyperText Transfer Protocol is a defined set of steps that a client must follow in order to obtain data from a web server. This process, or protocol, is followed for each and every single piece of data downloaded from a web server, and this is why the prefix "http://" is included in every URL on web pages, even including the links.

If a link on a web page were meant to access data differently, say via a file transfer, then it would require that "ftp://" be included as a prefix instead.

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