Chapter 9
- HTML stands for Hypertext Markup Language, which is the standard and most common language for developing web pages and applications.
- Most of the communication that's done via the internet (more specifically, the World Wide Web (WWW)) uses HTTP. In HTTP, request methods are used to convey information on what data is being requested and should be sent back from a server.
- HTTP response status codes are three-digit numbers that signify the state of communication between a server and its client. They are split into five categories, each indicating a specific state.
- The
requests
module manages the communication between a Python program and a web server through HTTP requests. - A ping test is a tool that's typically used by web administrators to make sure that their sites are still available to clients. A ping test does this by making requests to the websites and analyzing the returned response status code.
- Both the process of making different requests...