HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

Name: HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol
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HTTP is the network protocol of the Web. It is simple and powerful - famous for two-way conversation browser-server

Created byJohnny Karkar

Last updated 2/2014

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What you'll learn

Ttry to tease apart HTTP’s interrelated and often misunderstood rules, and we offer you a series of topic-based videos that explain many aspects of HTTP

Course content

5 sections • 27 lectures • 2h 39m total length

Download and Install the JDK. (required by Tomcat)7:02
Download and Install the JDK - needed if Installing Tomcat.
Download and Install Tomcat3:42
Download and install Apache Tomcat
Start & Stop Tomcat 72:42
Start and stop Tomcat 7 using the bin folder and the Tomcat 7 W launcher, then verify the service is running on its default port.
Configuring Port number in Tomcat2:33
Learn to configure tomcat to a preferred port by editing the configuration file, then stop and restart tomcat to apply changes and verify the new port responds.

Introduction5:49
Explore how the Hypertext transfer protocol enables client-initiated requests to servers, with servers responding by delivering resources. Underpinning the web is a stateless, pull-based, client-initiated model.
URL - Uniform Resource Locators7:31
IP address?3:16
Learn how DNS maps friendly names to IP addresses so browsers reach sites like Google.com or Wikipedia. Understand why users might bypass DNS and enter an IP address directly.
HTTP and Tomcat6:10
URL Encoding p1. (or: 'What are those "%20" codes in URLs?')13:05
Learn how urls encode non ascii characters with percent encoding and two hex digits. Recognize how utf-8 and unicode extend this scheme, and how rfc 1738 governs url syntax.
URL Encoding p2. (Java URL encode example.')6:30
MIME and Content-Type p1.7:45
MIME and Content Type p2.5:09
Discover how http headers convey mime types through Content-Type, guiding browsers to render text, images, and other resources, not by file extensions but by server-specified type.
MIME and Content Type p3. (sniffing)4:40

Message types4:49
TCP-IP monitor (in eclipse)5:41
cygwin - Telnet (Installation)3:58
Telnet - Manual Entry p1.6:04
Explore how a browser crafts HTTP requests and handles transactions with telnet, sending requests and receiving responses; see how redirects are signaled and followed.
Telnet - Moved:/Location: p2.5:06
Explain how HTTP redirects use a location header to temporarily move a page to CNN.com, and how the browser issues get requests, fetches resources, and completes with a 200 ok.

Java - Socket and raw HTTP request to an HTTP server.6:45
HTTP - B2C (3 Tier) Web application environment.13:11
HTTP - POST and GET methods.7:11
Compare get and post methods by submitting a form with first name and last name, and observe the http requests and responses in the local server monitor.
HTTP - Safe and Unsafe Operation6:21
Learn how to prevent post resubmission by using a post-redirect-get pattern and session storage to carry data, eliminating the warning after post requests.
Fiddler7:11
HTTP - Status codes3:01
Discover how http status codes convey the outcome of a request, using three-digit numbers grouped into 1xx informational, 2xx success, 3xx redirection, 4xx client error, and 5xx server error.
Networking and Packets5:24
Explore how tcp/ip suite and seven-layer model organize network communication, with each layer adding headers to form packets and enabling reassembly at the destination, including http in application layer.
Wireshark7:51

Requirements

Basic IT background and programming,

Description

HTTP is the network protocol of the Web. It is both simple and powerful.Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the protocol programs use to communicate over the World Wide Web.HTTP is most famous for two-way conversation between web browsers and web servers.

In this tutorial, we try to tease apart HTTP’s interrelated and often misunderstood rules, and we offer you a series of topic-based videos that explain many aspects of HTTP

We will learn how to use tools such as Telnet, Eclipse's TCP/IP Monitor, Fiddler and Wireshark among others.

I will be adding more lectures / supplementary materials on the course as it goes by.

This tutorial is for anyone who wants to understand HTTP and the underlying architecture of the Web.

Johnny.

Who this course is for:

Programmers, IT Students and curious audience.

HTTP - Hypertext Transfer Protocol

What you'll learn

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Course content

Apache Tomcat (may be omitted! - but highly recommended)4 lectures • 16min

HTTP - INTRODUCTION9 lectures • 1hr

HTTP - Messages5 lectures • 26min

HTTP - Connections (in progress)8 lectures • 57min

HTTP - REFERENCES & RESOURCES1 lecture • 1min

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