: program running within a host
HTTP: web’s application layer protocol
client/server model
uses TCP
HTTP is “stateless”
HTTP connections
non-presistent HTTP
object 한 개만 보내고 TCP connection을 끊는 경우
RTT
: time for a small packet to travel from client to server and back
non-persistent HTTP response time
= 2 * RTT + file transmission
persistent HTTP