<article lang="&language;" id="http">
<title
>http</title>
<articleinfo>
<authorgroup>
<author
>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
<othercredit role="translator"
><firstname
>Malcolm</firstname
><surname
>Hunter</surname
><affiliation
><address
><email
>malcolm.hunter@gmx.co.uk</email
></address
></affiliation
><contrib
>Conversion to British English</contrib
></othercredit
> 
</authorgroup>
</articleinfo>

<para
><acronym
>http</acronym
> is the <emphasis
>H</emphasis
>yper<emphasis
>T</emphasis
>ext <emphasis
>T</emphasis
>ransfer <emphasis
>P</emphasis
>rotocol.</para>

<para
>The http kioslave is used by all &kde; applications to handle connections to http servers, that is, web servers. The most common usage is to view web pages in the &konqueror; web browser.</para>

<para
>You can use the http kioslave in &konqueror; by giving it a <acronym
>URL</acronym
>. <userinput
>http://<replaceable
>www.kde.org</replaceable
></userinput
>.</para>

<para
>See the manual: <ulink url="man:/http"
>http</ulink
>. </para>

</article>