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35: HTTP - The Unsung Hero of the Internet
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Jim leads a deep dive into HTTP — how it works, why it's still the backbone of the internet, and what's changed since Tim Berners-Lee built it at CERN in 1991. Wolf and Jim cover the protocol from request methods to modern performance upgrades, with detours into cookies, CORS, WebSockets, and the tools they reach for when debugging. Topics covered
What HTTP is: Hypertext Transfer Protocol,…