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What's HTTP?

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What's HTTP?

You speak my language?

Justin
Feb 16, 2020
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What's HTTP?

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HTTP is the language that your computer speaks to web servers to let you browse the internet. How you supplicate to the server gods that be.

  • HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a protocol that helps computers talk to one another and share data

  • HTTP works through the request / response model, kind of like a Burger King drive-thru

  • Some connections…

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