Session on HTTP

Today morning gave a session on http and it was quite a pleasant experience for me. Had good feedback from the people who attended.

I was clear in my understanding on HTTP methods (thanks to web and books) and the way request response were handled. Though i did not have time to give demo on packet sniffer, i could explain their idea of it’s existance. We did not have any computer in the hall and that made me write on the board. Write code snippets are little painful but i remember my english lecturer in school writing almost the whole book on the board and we just copying it in the note book to get corrected again.

Memories of ethereal and college days were flowing when i was explaining packet sniffers.

I have not tried writing any serious AJAX code till now though i have managed to work on it. Now i am quite motivated to write one for my own use.

HTTP tunnelling was quite interesting and i must try it some time. I have seen people using SMB (Samba rather) being tunneled into SSH. But never tried it.

 I compiled a short note which is little difficult to decode (even for me) and uploaded. The link is given below. I did reasonaby good formatting and took the printout with me for the session.

I think Ranga will remember me asking him a month back the some useful link on http basics. The one he gave me was simple and easy to understand. Here is the link.