Introduction to HTTP
Explore the fundamentals of the HTTP protocol, including its longstanding design and security enhancements. Understand how HTTP facilitates communication between browsers and web applications, and why securing this communication is essential to protect sensitive data from interception.
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HTTP is a thing of beauty. It is a protocol that has survived for longer than 20 years with very few changes.
As we saw in the previous chapter, browsers interact with web applications through the HTTP protocol, and this is the main reason we’re drilling down on the subject.
If users enter their credit card details on a website and an attacker is able to intercept the ...