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What is the role of HTTP in a network application? What other components are needed to complete a Web application?

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HTTP or hyper text transfer protocol is used to fetch text, images, video and audio, from the server to the client.

A web application needs a user-interface and possibly a database, if it stores user data.

Depending on the type of web-application it might need many other protocols such as FTP, SMTP and so on...

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