Course HTTP API
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Structure of HTTP requests

Main request components: method, URL, headers, body, differences between HTTP 1.0 and 1.1, data format and encoding in requests

HTTP Methods

Overview of main methods: GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, idempotent and safe methods, usage examples for each

HTTP Request Body

Structure and format of request and response bodies, data formats: JSON, XML, form data, how to properly construct the request body

Submitting Data via Forms

How data from forms is sent in HTTP requests, differences between GET and POST methods when submitting forms, examples of working with HTML forms

Cookies and Sessions

How cookies work in HTTP, using cookies for session management, limitations of the stateless HTTP protocol

Redirection

Working with redirects, types of redirects, following redirects