What Is HTTP Compression?

What is HTTP compression and how does it help your site?

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What is SSL/TLS and handshaking?

What is SSL/TLS and handshaking and how do browsers establish trust?

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What is HTTP Chunked Encoding? How and When is it Used?

How chunked encoding works at a high level and its various applications.

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The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

What HTTP is — and does — for the World Wide Web.

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What are HTTP Cookies?

What do HTTP cookies do and how do they store information?

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What are Reverse Proxies? When are They Used?

What are reverse proxies? Are they the same as CDNs?

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What is HTTPS and why should you use it?

What is "HTTPS" — how does it secure your website?

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What are SSL/TLS Certificates?

What are SSL and TSL certificates used for?

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What is a Web Server?

What is a web server and how does it work?

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What are HTTP Headers?

What are HTTP Headers for -- and how do they work?

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What Are HTTP Range Requests?

How HTTP Range Requests work and allow for precise data transfers (and pausing/resuming of downloads).

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What is HTTP Proxy?

What is HTTP proxy and is they secure?

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What are Cross Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) Headers?

What are CORS headers? How do they work?

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What Are HTTP Status Codes?

What are HTTP status codes? What are they for?

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What is the HTTP 3 (QUIC) Protocol?

What HTTP 3 (QUIC) is, its benefits, and how it works.

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What is GZIP Compression?

A brief overview of what GZIP does and how it works.

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What is Base64?

How the binary strings are converted to and from base 64, as well as its uses.

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What are Byte Range Requests?

What are HTTP Byte Range Requests and how do they help?

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What is URL Encoding?

What is URL encoding? How does it work - and what is it used for?

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What is HTTP/2?

What is Version 2 of the HTTP protocol?

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What is Caching and how does a Cache work?

A gentle primer into HTTP and CDN Caching

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What is robots.txt?

Learn about robot.txt and web crawlers.

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What is SSE (Server-Sent Events) and how do they work?

What are they and why are they useful?

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What is a Real-Time Web Application

What are real-time web applications, and what technologies help us implement them?

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What is WebSocket?

What is WebSocket and why is it useful?

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What is a Message Queue?

What is a Message Queue?

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What is Representational State Transfer (REST)?

What is REST and what is RESTful?

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