Glossary
H
Hostname
The name of a device used to identify it when connected to a network or the Internet. Sometimes a hostname is considered to be only the leftmost part of a fully qualified domain name, for example, www.pt.pt, the hostname can be www.
HTTP
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a family of stateless, application-level, request/response protocols that share a generic interface, extensible semantics, and self-describing messages to enable flexible interaction with network-based hypertext information systems.