HTTP Protocol and Content Delivery

TRACK

HTTP semantics, representation contracts, browser credential boundaries, caching, HTTPS delivery, proxies, DNS, CDNs, long-lived connections, and observability for backend-facing web delivery.

24 lessons

LESSONS

001

HTTP as an Application Protocol

[TODO]
002

URLs, Authorities, Origins, and Resource Identity

[TODO]
003

HTTP Message Syntax, Headers, and Framing

[TODO]
004

Method Semantics: Safety, Idempotency, and Side Effects

[TODO]
005

Status Codes and Failure Contracts

[TODO]
006

Content Negotiation, Media Types, and Representation Metadata

[TODO]
007

Conditional Requests: ETags, Last-Modified, and Precondition Logic

[TODO]
008

HTTP Caching: Freshness, Validation, and Shared Caches

[TODO]
009

Cookies, SameSite, and Session Transport

[TODO]
010

CORS, Origins, and Browser Enforcement

[TODO]
011

HTTP Authentication and Authorization Headers

[TODO]
012

Request and Response Bodies: Streaming, Compression, and Range Delivery

[TODO]
013

Persistent Connections, HOL Blocking, and HTTP/1.1 Limits

[TODO]
014

HTTP/2 Multiplexing, Flow Control, and HPACK

[TODO]
015

HTTP/3, QUIC Streams, and Packet Loss Recovery

[TODO]
016

HTTPS Edge Boundaries: TLS, SNI, ALPN, and HSTS

[TODO]
017

Reverse Proxies, Load Balancers, and Header Trust

[TODO]
018

DNS Resolution for Web Delivery

[TODO]
019

CDNs: Cache Keys, Edge Routing, and Origin Shielding

[TODO]
020

Cache Purge, Surrogate Keys, and Content Invalidation

[TODO]
021

WebSockets, Server-Sent Events, and Long Polling

[TODO]
022

Redirects, Rewrites, and Edge Policy

[TODO]
023

Observability for HTTP: Logs, Traces, and Wire Symptoms

[TODO]
024

HTTP Delivery Capstone: Design a Global Request Path CAPSTONE

[TODO]

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