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Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang
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Network Programming in Elixir and Erlang

by Andrea Leopardi
August 2025
Intermediate to advanced
272 pages
6h 14m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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HTTP/1.1 Protocol Basics

HTTP has a long and complicated history.[127] Suffice to say, HTTP/1 was released as a textual protocol in 1996, followed by some improvements in HTTP/1.1. HTTP/2 and HTTP/3, however, are binary protocols and take a wildly different approach. There’s also HTTP/0.9, the pre-1.0, early-1990s version of the protocol. HTTP has evolved significantly since its inception, and the HTTP landscape has gotten wider and more complex.

At the time of writing, there are two versions of HTTP that dominate the web: HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2. HTTP/1.1 represents the “modern” variant of the first version of HTTP/1, while HTTP/2 is a whole revision of the protocol. You’re likely familiar with HTTP/1.1 since it’s the most well-known and most frequently ...

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