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HTTP
- How do HTTP requests and responses look like? What are HTTP headers? What are they used for?
- Look at real-life HTTP exchanges:
- Open makandra.com Show archive.org snapshot
- Open the Network tab of your browser inspector.
- Reload the page.
- Inspect each request and look at its request headers, response headers and payloads.
- What is HTTP/2?
Digging deeper
- Use
curlto save a copy ofhttp://www.sueddeutsche.de/. - Use
curlto save the CSS stylesheet of sueddeutsche.de
SSL / TLS
- What is SSL / TLS?
- Why do we need it?
- How do SSL certificates work?
- What is a "certificate authority"?
- What's the significance of the "Common Name" entry in a SSL certificate?
- What does "certificate chain" mean?
- Find out how you can see SSL info for this very website in your browser.
- Go to https://badssl.com/ Show archive.org snapshot . For a few of the broken SSL examples: See how your browser reacts. Try to understand what is wrong.
DNS
- What is DNS?
- What are A, AAAA, CNAME, MX entries?
- What are subdomains?
- Imagine an application that is running as
https://www.moviedb2000.de. Now the project is renamed and should be moved tohttps://filmplexhq.com. Which steps are necessary to make this change? Are there any problems doing this?
Routing
- Use
digandtracerouteto find out where www.makandra.com is physically located. - What way does a package take when you request www.makandra.com from inside our offices? Actually name the physical places the bits visit during their trip.
Posted by Henning Koch to makandra Curriculum (2015-08-21 08:57)