This chapter provides a detailed specification for the HTTP Transport and describes how clients use the transport to communicate with HIS. It contains these sections:·
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Transport Overview
The HTTP transport is unique in that the separation between transport and protocol is more fluid than for the other transports. A protocol is implemented by a set of RESTful web services registered under a common base URI prefix. A client can determine if HIS supports a particular protocol over the HTTP Transport by issuing an OPTIONS request to the given URI prefix.
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