The REST API has been a pillar of web programming for a long time. But recently gRPC has started encroaching on its territory. It turns out there are some...

In this post we'll look at the finer aspects of HTTP, like connection handling, authentication, and HTTP caching. These topics are fairly extensive, but...

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is the life of the web. It's used every time you transfer a document or make an AJAX request. In this post you'll learn...

HTTP stands for Hypertext Transfer Protocol. It's a stateless, application-layer protocol for communicating between distributed systems, and it's the...

In this tutorial, you'll learn why you need to encode or decode your URLs and how to use the built-in PHP functions to do so.

Whether you're a programmer or not, you have seen it everywhere on the web. Even your first Hello World PHP script sent HTTP headers without you realizing...

In this tutorial, I'm going to show you how to use the classes and methods available in the Android SDK to connect to remote web servers and interact with...

You might have heard about cookies, but what exactly are they, and what can we do with them? In this tutorial, we will focus on the basics of cookies, and...

Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. Retrofit makes it easy to connect to a REST web service by translating the API into Java...

Retrofit is a type-safe HTTP client for Android and Java. Retrofit makes it easy to connect to a REST web service by translating the API into Java...

CURL is a commonly used command-line tool for making HTTP requests. In this tutorial, we'll have a look at HTTPie, a command-line tool for making HTTP...

In this short video tutorial, I’ll look at how and when we should be using a secure connection when processing payments with Stripe and Laravel Cashier. I’ll...