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Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals
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Network Programmability and Automation Fundamentals

by Khaled Abuelenain, Jeff Doyle, Anton Karneliuk, Vinit Jain
May 2021
Intermediate to advanced
1232 pages
41h 29m
English
Cisco Press
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Chapter 8

Advanced HTTP

This chapter picks up where Chapter 7, “HTTP and REST,” leaves off and covers more advanced topics related to HTTP. The first section of the chapter describes the different types of HTTP authentication schemes, which provide a means to verify the identity of a client attempting to access a protected resource and, in some cases, verify the identity of the server back to the client. HTTP is stateless. Cookies provide a workaround to allow servers to maintain state information on client machines. This chapter covers cookies and their use in HTTP. This chapter also discusses the Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol and HTTP over TLS (HTTPS). Using TLS tunnels, HTTPS provides encryption of HTTP requests and responses and, ...

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ISBN: 9780135183762