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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
simontatham@hachyderm.io ("Simon Tatham") wrote:
This morning I gave someone an introductory talk on how HTTP works, by demonstrating a few simple HTTP transactions by hand using "openssl s_connect" (gone are the days when you can do that using nc), explaining what all the bits and pieces are, and then showing how to look up what Firefox is doing in the developer tools to see full-sized examples.
Right at the end of the talk, I thought "hang on, this seems like exactly the kind of 'learn a thing from basics' material that @b0rk likes to write about, I wonder if she has a blog post covering the same ground?"
Better still, she has a whole zine! https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/12/new-zine-on-http/ Moral: perhaps I should think of that _first_ next time.