[L] HTTP protocol

HTTP protocol and its features. Presenting the HTTP protocol and its parts and how it works together with some features implemented on top of the protocol. We see how caching is implemented through header fields and how the management of cookies between the server and the client can help us implement a login session for a user.

Resources

Resources that are used, or are relevant, for the areas that the lecture covers.

• HTTP protocol
• HTTP Request methods
  • Safe versus unsafe
  • Idempotent or not
• Cache
• Cookies
• RFC 2616: Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1