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Client-Server Communication (Udacity)

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Client-Server Communication (Udacity)

HTTP/1 to HTTP/2 and all things Security. We use websites all the time, but how does clicking a link in your browser or typing in a URL in the address bar get you to a website? How does the server know what information you're looking for or how to send you that information once it's figured that out? How can you protect your users from attackers? Dig into this course and you'll be able to answer these questions!

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This course will guide you through how a client communicates with a server. You'll learn about HTTP's request and response cycle, dig into HTTP headers and verbs, distinguish HTTP/1 from HTTP/2 capabilities, all while experiencing the importance of security by digging into the details of HTTPS. Throughout the course, you'll learn both security best practices, as well as ways to improve the performance of your web apps. We'll provide you with handcrafted servers where you'll diagnose problematic server setups, issues with SSL certificates, and even have a chance to hack an example bank website to transfer funds.
Typically, web developers do not work directly with underlying platform of HTTP. But knowing how information is transferred across the wire is vital to creating efficient and professional apps. This course will dig into the ins and outs of application performance as well as cover common security pitfalls and how to prevent them.

What You Will Learn

Lesson 1
HTTP’s Request Response Cycle

  • Learn about HTTP's request and response cycle.
  • What makes up an HTTP requests and response?
  • What originates an HTTP request and how do they relate to one another?

Lesson 2
HTTP/1

  • Find out how HTTP/1 is used in practice.
  • Map the requests and response types from lesson 1 into HTTP verbs and response codes & headers.

Lesson 3
HTTPS

  • How does HTTPS differ from HTTP?
  • TLS, cryptography, and Certificate Authorities.
  • HTTP Mixed Content issues.

Lesson 4
HTTP/2

  • Learn how HTTP/2 improves on and extends HTTP/1.
  • Look at optimizations for HTTP/1 that are now anti-patterns in HTTP/2.

Lesson 5
Security

  • Look at and resolve common security problems like CORS, CSRF, XSS, and more!

Prerequisites and Requirements
We expect that you are comfortable reading and writing HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Knowledge of JavaScript's Fetch API is not required but will be beneficial. Check out our JavaScript Promises course to learn about Fetch.
Other Requirements:
comfort with command line tools

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