October 2021
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
8h 16m
English
The HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a simple yet powerful technique to send or receive data to and from a server. As we've seen, the principles of request and response are at the core of this protocol: when developing our application programming interface (API), our goal is to process the incoming request and build a response for the client. Thus, in order to get data from the server, the client always has to initiate a request first. In some contexts, however, this may not be very convenient. Imagine a typical chat application: when a user receives a new message, we would like them to be notified immediately by the server. Working only with HTTP, we would ...
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