Basics of HTTP Protocol
Lectures 02 • 40 slides
Narration
Session 02 Slide 1: Basics of HTTP Protocol - Introduction
Today's Topic
Basics of the HTTP Protocol
What is HTTP?
- HyperText Transfer Protocol
- Communication protocol between web browsers and web servers
- Developed in the 1990s along with the WWW
sequenceDiagram
participant Browser
participant Web Server
Browser->>Web Server: HTTP Request
Note over Browser,Web Server: GET /index.html HTTP/1.1
Web Server->>Browser: HTTP Response
Note over Browser,Web Server: 200 OK + HTML content
Review from Last Time
- Client/Server Model
- Flow of Request and Response
What You Will Learn Today
- Structure of HTTP Request
- Structure of HTTP Response
- HTTP Methods (GET, POST, etc.)
- Status Codes
- HTTP Headers
- How to Check with Developer Tools
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