OpenLayers Protocol specification

Question

Is there a specification for the protocol OpenLayers uses to communicate with the server? I'm trying to reverse engineer what happens on GET, POST, PUT and DELETE, but I don't like to do it this way.

Example:

var vectorLayer = new OpenLayers.Layer.Vector("Vector Layer", {
    protocol: new OpenLayers.Protocol.HTTP({
        url: '...',
        format: new OpenLayers.Format.GeoJSON({})
    }),
});

Answer 1

I'm not sure what you mean by specification but would looking at the source code help you work out what's going on?

If so look at http://dev.openlayers.org/releases/OpenLayers-2.12/lib/OpenLayers/Protocol/HTTP.js