Resources for understanding HTTP

resources_for_understanding_http.txt

Put this together as just some links to various materials I made.
Mostly b/c I'm low on time, but also b/c I Figured it will be good
for you to aggregate it into something coherent :)

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Tools:
  Make a request and see both the request and response:
    $ curl -v 'http://somewhere.com'
  
  Make a POST request like this:
    $ curl -v localhost:3000 -d key=value -d another-data-key=another-value

  Start a netcat server on localhost:3000
    It prints the request and lets you type in the response (netcat)
    Example: https://github.com/JoshCheek/playgrounds/blob/master/nc-http-response.gif
    $ nc -l 3000
  
  Within the browser
    In Chrome, you can open the Network tab in the dev tools
    Then you can see the request / response / cookies from within Chrome

https://gist.github.com/JoshCheek/7f8c5afb8850c5cb8f22
  I think this is the one we went over at Teresas's
  Exercise ideas (ie redirect the browser, set a cookie, etc)
  Shows how to get the ip from the name by pinging the server
  Shows how to get a pry inbetween Rack and the app, then you can see the parsed request, and edit the response

https://gist.github.com/JoshCheek/298f542a576bfe960d1e
  Tutorial style walkthrough I made for someone (I think Nathan)
  Shows how to use netcat and curl and make a rack app, including a 35 line ultra-mini Sinatra-style web framework
  https://gist.github.com/JoshCheek/298f542a576bfe960d1e

https://gist.github.com/JoshCheek/142cb8f4cddddf65ce2d
  An overview of the approach I wanted to take to introduce this stuff
  (ie big picture stuff, how it all fits together)

https://howdns.works
  Web comic explaining how DNS works (how your computer figures out where the server is)

https://github.com/turingschool/lesson_plans/tree/master/electives/building-a-webserver
  This was an elective I made, we build a webserver in 70 loc

https://gist.github.com/JoshCheek/121e587101d397cbfbf3
  This is a Sinatra I made in 90 loc

https://github.com/JoshCheek/playgrounds
  Examples of how to play with pieces in isolation:
  ActiveRecord, erb, ActiveSupport, Rails view helpers, validations,
  routes / url helpers, query params, form names, HTTP escaping / unescaping,
  HTML escaping / unescaping, all the status codes, CSS selectors, A 1-file Rails app,
  a lot of the above stuff