Author: Vladimir Pecanac

In the first article of the series, we talked about the basic concepts of the HTTP. Now that we have some foundation to build upon, we can talk about some of the architectural aspects of the HTTP. There is more to HTTP than just sending and receiving data. HTTP cannot function by itself as an application protocol. It needs infrastructure in form of a hardware and software solutions that provide different services and make the communication over the World Wide Web possible and efficient. This is the second part of the HTTP Series. In this article, you will learn more about:...

In this article, I will present you the HTTP basic concepts. But why HTTP? Why should I read about HTTP you may ask yourself? Well, if you are a software developer, you will understand how to write better applications by learning how they communicate. If you are system architect or network admin, you will get deeper knowledge on designing complicated network architectures. REST, which is very important architectural style nowadays is relying completely on utilizing HTTP features, so that makes HTTP even more important to understand. If you want to make great RESTful applications, you must understand HTTP first. I...