HTTP and the web
What happens when you open a web page: URLs, requests and responses, methods, status codes, headers, HTTPS and cookies, with curl examples.
- 1How the web worksURLs, clients and servers, and the steps between typing an address and seeing a page.8 min
- 2Requests, methods and curlAnatomy of an HTTP request, the main methods and how to send them with curl.10 min
- 3Status codes and headersRead a response: status classes, the headers that matter and how caching is controlled.10 min
- 4HTTPS and cookiesWhat the padlock really tells you, how certificates work and how cookies keep you logged in.10 min
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