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HTTP For Beginners

  • What is HTTP?
    • What is a Protocol & What is Hyper Text?
    • HTTP Requests and Responses
    • Components of a Request and Response
    • HTTP Methods
    • HTTP Status
      • httpstatus.es
      • Explain different groups (2xx ok, 3xx redirect, 4xx client error, 5xx server error)
  • How HTTP powers the web
    • Browsers make requests, servers return responses
    • Examples of HTTP statuses and error pages
  • Hypermedia
    • The web is hypermedia (hyperlinks to other documents)
  • Media Types
    • Everything is a media type.
    • Most common: HTML. Designed to help browsers present content to humans.
    • Machines like JSON, XML, etc
    • HTML, JSON, XML are hypermedia types because they can contain links
    • Audio files, video files, PDFs etc are not hypermedia, but they are media types.
  • REST
    • What is a resource?
    • HTTP Methods as verbs
    • Idempotency. What methods are safe?
    • What does stateless mean?
    • Content Negotiation
    • HATEOS
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