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[AI summary] This article provides a technical overview of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), explaining how it ensures reliable data transfer over an unreliable network using concepts like ports, sequence numbers, acknowledgments, and connection handshakes.
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Note: To make this easier to read (and write), h1 may be used in place of HTTP/1, and h2 may used in place of HTTP/2. HTTP/1 has a long and storied history. Originally developed as a sixty page specification documented in RFC 1945, it was designed to handle text-based pages that leverage hypermedia to connect documents to each other. Typical web pages would kilobytes of data. For example, the first web page was a simple text file with web links to other text documents. Now, the web is made up of media-rich sites containing images, scripts, stylesheets, fonts, and more. The size of a typical web page is measured in megabytes rather than kilobytes, and the number of requests required to assemble a full page can be over one hundred. The reality of how web pages...
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SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) and TLS (Transport Layer Security) are fundamental to Internet transport security, but they are often confused.
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Generic `printf` implementation in Idris2. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.
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