IntermediateLesson 6 of 1430 min 路 hands-on
TLS and Certificates
Part of the Web course
TLS is the layer that turns plain HTTP into HTTPS. By the end of this lesson you will know roughly what happens during the handshake, what a certificate actually proves, and how to look at a real one from your shell.
When your browser connects to https://example.com:443, before any HTTP byte goes through, it runs a short conversation called the TLS handshake. In friendly words ...
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Start this lessonTLS and CertificatesWhat you'll learn
- TLS handshake
- ClientHello
- ServerHello
- Certificate
- Key exchange
- CA chain of trust
- Openssl s_client
- Cert expiry
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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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