Why HTTP protocol is designed in plain text way?

Question

Yesterday, I have a discussion with my colleagues about HTTP. It is asked why HTTP is designed in plain text way. Surely, it can be designed in binary way just like TCP prot

Answer 1

HTTP stands for "Hypertext Transfer Protocol".

It was initially devised as a way to serve text documents, hence the text based protocol.

What we do with HTTP now is far beyond its original intent.