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We've compiled a list of 5 free and paid alternatives to HTTP. The primary competitors include Freenet, IPFS. In addition to these, users also draw comparisons between HTTP and ZeroNet, Dat, Solid. Also you can look at other similar options here: File Sharing Software.


Freenet
Free Open Source

Freenet is free software which lets you anonymously share files, browse and publish...

IPFS
Free

IPFS is the permanent web. A new peer-to-peer hypermedia protocol.

ZeroNet
Free Open Source

Real-time updated, Peer-to-Peer sites using the BitTorrent network and soon the Distributed Hash...

Dat
Free Open Source

Distributed data sharing tool.

Solid (derived from "social linked data") is a proposed set of conventions and tools for...

is an application protocol for distributed, collaborative, and hypermedia information systems.

HTTP Platforms

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HTTP Overview

Hypertext is structured text that uses logical links (hyperlinks) between nodes containing text. HTTP is the protocol to exchange or transfer hypertext.

Development of HTTP was initiated by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in 1989. Standards development of HTTP was coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments (RFCs). The first definition of HTTP/1.1, the version of HTTP in common use, occurred in RFC 2068 in 1997, although this was made obsolete by RFC 2616 in 1999 and then again by the RFC 7230 family of RFCs in 2014.

A later version, the successor HTTP/2, was standardized in 2015, and is now supported by major web servers and browsers over TLS using ALPN extension where TLS 1.2 or newer is require

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