NCSA Mosaic for Microsoft Windows User's Guide
The primary communications and server protocol of the Web is HTTP,
the HyperText Transfer Protocol. HTTP is a fast, light-weight protocol
specifically designed for the interactive, hypermedia environment of
the Web.
NCSA Mosaic can also communicate with other Internet protocols, including
FTP, Gopher, WAIS, and NNTP.
National Center for Supercomputing Applications / mosaic-win@ncsa.uiuc.edu