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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