Ask HN: best explanation of HTTP request from ground up

Posted by kevin_morrill on Friday January 18, 2013 @06:44PM
from the ask-hn dept.

A few months ago someone submitted a blog post that explained what happens in an HTTP request from the ground up, at the level that your mom could understand it. It included nuances like DNS lookup, SSL, interpreting the URL, etc.

Does anyone have the link handy? Alternatively, if you think something does this particularly well, feel free to chime in with it.

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Re:Ask HN: best explanation of HTTP request from ground up by tnkm on Saturday January 19, 2013 @01:31AM (#5082804)

http://www.moserware.com/2009/06/first-few-milliseconds-of-h...

any chance it's this?

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Re:Ask HN: best explanation of HTTP request from ground up by kevin_morrill on Saturday January 19, 2013 @02:16AM (#5082867)

That's not the one, but this is interesting all the same. I'm gonna have to dive into this.

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Re:Ask HN: best explanation of HTTP request from ground up by Rhodee on Sunday January 20, 2013 @11:13PM (#5089814)

Thought I'd contribute this link.

http://tomayko.com/writings/rest-to-my-wife

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Re:Ask HN: best explanation of HTTP request from ground up by rtcoms on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @08:26AM (#5096952)

try this :

http://www.garshol.priv.no/download/text/http-tut.html

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