Free

HTTP & Web Servers

Course

Learn the network underpinnings of the Web through exercises in your terminal and in Python.

Last Updated March 7, 2022

Prerequisites:

No experience required

Course Lessons

Lesson 1

Requests & Responses

In this lesson, you will examine HTTP requests and responses by experimenting directly with a web server, interacting with it by hand.

Lesson 2

The Web from Python

In this lesson, you will write HTTP servers and clients in Python.

Lesson 3

HTTP in the Real World

In this lesson, you will examine a number of practical HTTP features that go beyond basic requests and responses.

Taught By The Best

Karl Krueger

Command Line Instructor

Before joining Udacity, Karl was a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google for eight years, building automation and monitoring to keep the world's busiest web services online.

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