September 2018
Intermediate to advanced
426 pages
10h 46m
English
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HTTP protocol and building HTTP clients in python
In this section, we are going to introduce the HTTP protocol and how we can build HTTP clients with httplib. HTTP is an application-layer protocol that basically consists of two elements: a request made by the client, which requests from the server a specific resource specified by a URL, and a response, sent by the server, that supplies the resource that the client requested.