Quotes About HTTP

Using the HTTP protocol, computer scientists around the world began making the Internet easier to navigate by inventing point-and-click browsers. One browser in particular, called Mosaic, created in 1993 at the University of Illinois, would help popularize the Web, and therefore the Net, as no software tool had yet done.

Every time you load a webpage is a HTTP request. That's a lot of HTTP requests. If you are earning bitcoin on every HTTP request, that could be a lot of earned bitcoins.

Node.js (or, as it's more briefly called by many, simply "Node") is a server-side solution for JavaScript, and in particular, for receiving and responding to HTTP requests.

For now, let's just say that if your API is re-defining the HTTP verbs or if it is assigning new meanings to HTTP status codes or making up its own status codes, it is not RESTful.

In fact, the biggest misconception is that you can call your API RESTful if its delivering XML or JSON over HTTP. And that misconception and the resulting proliferation of horrible APIs is likely the source of RESTafarian irritation with the application of the term "RESTful" in an API context. But let's be brutally honest. Most interactive systems don't follow this model either.

NCA uses a kernel module to transparently cache static web content in a kernel memory buffer, and replies to HTTP document requests for documents in its cache without ever waking up the application web server.

browsers you use on your computer, doesn't require you to enter the http:// part of the URL

The Ripple network is a protocol. It's like HTTP for money. Users, merchants, anyone can use it for free without a license.

Instead of passing our callback function directly to getJSON(), we instead pass it to the then() method. When the HTTP response arrives, the body of that response is parsed as JSON, and the resulting parsed value is passed to the function that we passed to then().

The http.HandleFunc() function takes two arguments: a path and a reference to a function to call when that path is requested. The function must have the signature func(http.ResponseWriter, *http.Request).