HTTP

HTTP is a transport protocol for the application layer. HTTP/1.1 specification is in common use.

TPM REST API receives RESTful HTTP Requests and replies RESTful HTTP Response in accordance with the HTTP/1.1 specification.

HTTP/1.1

The HTTP/1.1 specification is the third version of HTTP and a RESTful API supports all aspects of the HTTP/1.1 specification.

Message is the basic HTTP communication unit and HTTP/1.1 has two message types:

Protocol parameters are the content of an HTTP Request or Response message. For an HTTP protocol parameters introduction, see Protocol Parameters.