Uploaded September 2016 | Updated September 2026, 1 hour ago
GET is by far the most common request used by HTTP, one of the most common application-level internet protocols. So if you understand GET you are a long way towards understanding a lot of what happens online.GET requests a document from a web server. It can also pass some parameters that the server can use when determining how to return the document.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
GET is by far the most common request used by HTTP, one of the most common application-level internet protocols. So if you understand GET you are a long way towards understanding a lot of what happens online.GET requests a document from a web server. It can also pass some parameters that the server can use when determining how to return the document.
Credits: Talking: Geoffrey Challen (Assistant Professor, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo). Producing: Greg Bunyea (Undergraduate, Computer Science and Engineering, University at Buffalo).
Part of the internet-class.org online internet course. A blue Systems Research Group (https://blue.cse.buffalo.edu) production.
