Protocols

File Format
Name	Protocols
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Protocols

This section is for communications protocols, including APIs.

[This article is a work in progress, and it may turn out to be difficult to decide what should be listed here. The word "protocol" is not easy to define. In fact, a file format is really just a special kind of protocol.]

[Most protocols are arguably a little out of scope for this wiki. Feel free to document any protocol you want, but the focus should be on protocols that are closely related to file formats, that are used as file formats, or that may be found recorded in files.]

Protocols listed in other articles

• Development#Remote procedure calls
• E-Mail, newsgroups, and forums
• File transfer
• Filesystem
  • Filesystem#Networked and cloud filesystems
• Geospatial#Sites, cloud services, and APIs
• Networked devices
• Networking
• Encryption#Formats and protocols
• Printer protocols - See Page description languages, Graphics
• Terminal protocols - See Graphics
• Web#Protocols and parameters

List of articles

This list might not be complete. See also Category:Protocols.

• Audio Data API (Mozilla)
• DNS
• FTP
• Google Content API for Shopping
• Gopher
• HTTP/HTTPS
• JSON API
• JSON-RPC
• LDAP
• MediaStream Processing API
• OSC
• TCP/IP
• TLS/SSL
• Tor
• Web Audio API

See also

• Cables and connectors
• Serialization
• Web

Links

• Wikipedia: Communications protocol
• Wikipedia: Application programming interface