What Is HTTP Compression?

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

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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 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 GZIP Compression?

What GZIP does and a brief overview on 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 robots.txt?

Learn about robot.txt and web crawlers.

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