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<title>http</title>
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<author>&Lauri.Watts; &Lauri.Watts.mail;</author>
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<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>.
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