September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
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Introduction to the HTTP Protocol
The HTTP protocol is a stateless hyper-text data-transfer protocol that does not store the information exchanged between the client and server. This protocol defines the rules that clients, proxies, and servers must follow to exchange information.
Being a stateless protocol for storing information related to an HTTP transaction, it is necessary to resort to other techniques, such as cookies (values stored on the client side) or sessions (temporary memory spaces reserved to store information about one or more HTTP transactions on the server side).
The servers returns an HTTP code indicating the result of an operation requested by the client; in addition, headers can be used in the requests to include extra ...