From the course: HTTP Essential Training
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The request/response pair
From the course: HTTP Essential Training
The request/response pair
- The core component of HTTP is the request-response pair. Anytime something happens on the web, whether it be someone clicking a link, or entering an address in the address bar, or clicking the submit button in a form, they're sending a request, and the server will return a response. All of this is handled automatically by our user agent, i.e., the browser. You got a glimpse of what the browser does at the end of the last chapter, and in this chapter, we'll dig into it in more detail and find out exactly what's going on. What you'll see is, the browser does a lot of things behind the scenes, and once we know what it's doing, we can take advantage of that work and even get it to do things for us. There's more to the request-response pair than meets the eye, at least until you know where to look.
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