Build an HTTP Client (curl)

request serialization and redirects

Challenge 3 of Networking & ProtocolsIntermediate~55 min

Build your own curl: parse a URL into its parts, serialize an HTTP request, parse the response, drive it all through a pluggable transport, and follow redirects, the client side of the web server you built.

5 steps

1. 1Parsing the URL
2. 2Building the Request
3. 3Parsing the Response
4. 4The Client
5. 5Following Redirects