IntermediateLesson 1 of 1420 min 路 hands-on
What Is The Web
Part of the Web course
Welcome. If you have never thought about what actually happens when you type a URL into a browser, you are in the right place. The web is the world's biggest example of a very small idea: one program asks another program for something, the other program answers, the conversation ends. That is it. Everything else (browsers, apps, APIs) is decoration on top of that one pattern.
This lesson is pure reading. No commands, no buttons. Take your time. ...
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Start this lessonWhat Is The WebWhat you'll learn
- Client-server model
- Browser as a client
- URL structure
- What happens between typing and rendering
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All lessons in this course
14 lessons- 1What Is The Web20 min
- 2HTTP vs HTTPS15 min
- 3Request and Response Anatomy30 min
- 4Cookies, Sessions, and Tokens25 min
- 5DNS Explained25 min
- 6TLS and Certificates30 min
- 7CORS30 min
- 8REST API Basics25 min
- 9WebSockets and SSE25 min
- 10Caching and CDNs25 min
- 11Security Headers25 min
- 12Rate Limiting and Throttling20 min
- 13Monitoring and Logging20 min
- 14Capstone: A Tiny Web Server40 min
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