HTTP Protocol

Included in the course

What you'll learn

• Understand the structure of HTTP at a fundamental level
• Use verbs and request headers correctly
• Work with forms and encode data in a variety of ways
• Use different types of redirects and basic HTTP built-in authentication
• Save data between requests using cookies and manage their lifetime

Description

This course focuses on the HTTP Internet Protocol, which makes websites and browsers work. Understanding HTTP is the foundation every programmer should have. You'll learn more about the HTTP protocol at the most fundamental level: how it works and how to use it correctly.

Course program

• 1

  Introduction

  Learning about the course, its structure, tasks and goals

  theory
• 2

  HTTP 1.0

  Learning HTTP basics, request structure, and the concepts of user-agent and DNS

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 3

  HTTP 1.1

  Learning how HTTP 1.1 differs from version 1.0 and what is the concept of keep-alive

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 4

  HTTP request body

  Learning the body structure of requests and responses

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 5

  Submitting forms

  Learning how form data is sent in an HTTP request

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 6

  Transfer-Encoding

  Understanding the method of transferring data in chunks

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 7

  Data transfer via a query string

  Learning how to pass data to the server in the request line using the query string

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 8

  Redirects

  Understanding how redirects work in HTTP requests

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 9

  Basic authentication

  Learn how basic authentication works and how the browser reacts to a 401 code

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 10

  Cookies

  Understand how cookies work with the limitations of the stateless HTTP protocol

  theory

  quiz

  exercise

• 11

  Additional resources

  Some materials the Hexlet team have picked up. This will give you a more in-depth understanding of the topic