Provide a general understanding of TCP and HTTP protocols.
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TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) is a transport layer protocol focused on establishing a connection between the sender and the receiver. It provides reliable, ordered, and controlled data transfer, ensuring the delivery of packets in the correct order and retransmitting lost packets.
HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol used for transmitting hypertext documents (such as web pages) and other resources over a network. It operates over TCP and defines rules for interaction between the client and server, including request methods (GET, POST, etc.) and response codes.
Interaction scheme: The client sends an HTTP request to the server (for example, a page request), which is encapsulated in TCP packets. TCP ensures the reliable delivery of these packets to the server. The server processes the HTTP request, generates an HTTP response (for example, the HTML code of the page), which is also encapsulated in TCP packets and sent back to the client over a reliable TCP connection. The client receives the TCP packets, assembles the HTTP response from them, and displays the content to the user.