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HTTP Fundamentals

Everything a web developer should know about HTTP.

Scott Allen - Pluralsight course - HTTP Fundamentals
Scott Allen
What you'll learn

HTTP is the protocol of the web, and this course will look at HTTP from a web developer's perspective. We'll cover resources, messages, cookies, and authentication protocols. We'll look at how HTTP clients can use persistent and parallel connections to improve performance, and see how the web scales to meet demand using cache headers and proxy servers. By the end of the course you will have the knowledge to build better web applications and web services.

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Scott Allen - Pluralsight course - HTTP Fundamentals
Scott Allen

Scott has over 15 years of experience in commercial software development and is a frequent speaker at national conferences, and local user groups. Scott is a Microsoft MVP and has authored books on several Microsoft technologies, including ASP.NET, C#, and Windows Workflow.

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