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Web and HTTP Fundamentals

Understanding HTTP properly prevents many API and frontend bugs.

Core topics

  • Request and response lifecycle
  • HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE)
  • Status codes (2xx, 4xx, 5xx)
  • Headers and content types
  • Cookies, sessions, and tokens
  • CORS basics
  • Idempotency and safe retries

Why this matters

  • You design better APIs.
  • You debug frontend-backend issues faster.
  • You avoid common authentication mistakes.

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