What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP (OdeToCode Programming Series Book 1) [Kindle Edition]

K. Scott Allen

K. Scott Allen (Author)

› Visit Amazon's K. Scott Allen Page

Find all the books, read about the author, and more.

See search results for this author

Are you an author? Learn about Author Central

(Author)

Book Description

HTTP is the protocol of the web, and this book 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 book you will have the knowledge to
build better web applications and web services.

Product Details

• File Size: 735 KB
• Print Length: 79 pages
• Publisher: OdeToCode LLC (February 6, 2012)
• Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
• Language: English
• ASIN: B0076Z6VMI
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
• X-Ray:
  Not Enabled
• Lending: Enabled
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,432 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
  • #7 in Kindle Store > Kindle Short Reads > Two hours or more (65-100 pages) > Computers & Technology
  • #30 in Books > Computers & Technology > Web Development & Design > Programming

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great mix of technical details and best practices November 3, 2013

By LavaScornedOven

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

After I've read the book, I could only wish I had it the moment I started web development. Even after going through Flask tutorials, different blogs, some sporadic blog articles, slashing through RFCs, and such for a whole year, I still haven't had a clear overview of what's going on, and this book changed it for the better.

What I find most tedious in my professional carrier is to pass the threshold when learning something new. That threshold divides the state of being productive (thus, having fun), and the state of trying to wrap my head around new conceptual landscape, and with crazy schedules it's really hard to give oneself enough time to chew on a subject. I believe this book is a really effective shortcut to surpassing that threshold.

One other reason I chose this book is because it contains only transferable knowledge, which is quite important for anyone on a tight schedule with some sense for self-development planning. There is only one working code example written in C# which I could easily translate to Java and Python. Everything else is a mix of concepts, best practices, and well-chosen technical details.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for understanding the basics and then some! December 22, 2012

By Big Huge Dave

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I've been a developer for over 12 years and find that there are still a lot of the basic, underlying technologies that I either forgot or never really understood as good as I think a developer should. Scott Allen does a great job with this book teaching you the things you need to know as a developer, but also keeps the conversation at a level that non developers can understand if they just want to get a basic idea of how our amazing internet and web sites work.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Maybe a little too basic June 29, 2014

By Global engineer

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I was hoping to get a lot more out of this book than it delivered. It does cover the basics of HTTP and a little history, but the meaning of all the verbs, a more in depth treatment of the response codes and how they are used would have been welcome.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Great way to understand the basics of the protocol July 26, 2014

By Vertongen K.

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

This short overview of HTTP is a great way to understand the basics of the protocol.
However I would recommend further reading about specific topics for more details.
E.g. the most used HTTP status codes are only briefly described.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing and concise February 10, 2013

By Alexander

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I've been a web developer for just over a year and had no idea how the web actually worked. This book explains the under lying methodology of the internet in bite sized chunks that are super easy to read. I'm recommending this book to every web dev that I know!

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good starting point February 28, 2013

By Sudeep

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

A real good starting point with basic explained in detail. Btw, this more is a copy of "HTTP pocket reference" and if you have this already, there's nothing new in this book.

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Quick Overview of the HTTP Protocol September 14, 2014

By darryl

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

As an experienced software / game programmer who wanted to expand his breadth a bit and learn about this "web app" world, this was an excellent basic overview of the HTTP protocol to help you fill any holes in what you may believe it is and isn't.

There isn't much here in regard to how to "use" this information but that's not what this book set out to do. It's a great jumping off point to find other topics to research.

5.0 out of 5 stars Really interesting July 14, 2014

By Thomas E. Seeley

Format:Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase

I would gladly read this again if it were updated and expanded.