Re: [RFC] Web low level

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For HTTP specifically, I would recommend Web Client Programming with Perl, which is available through the O'Reilly Open Books Project. While it may seem a little dated,

chapters 2 and 3 illustrate how HTTP really works at the request/response level,
chapter 4 leads the reader through making the requests manually (creating a socket connection to the remote server and making the request), and
chapter 5 introduces the LWP module.

Hope that helps.

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Re^2: [RFC] Web low level by Martin90 (Sexton) on Mar 19, 2015 at 16:21 UTC
`While it may seem a little dated(...)` This book is 18 years old now, in such fast growing field as internet it really matters. Anyway, I will check it out. I also choose "High Performance Browser Networking" by Ilya Grigorik it covers http (v.2.0 also) and is from 2013. Can you propose some extra resources for http servers written in perl ? Thanks.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: [RFC] Web low level by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Mar 19, 2015 at 16:30 UTC
I think the enormous weight of the expertise here will fall on published code and not published learning materials. To that end, I recommend reading all the code you can: site:metacpan.org "http" ( server OR client ); focus on things that are newer and more highly rated/reviewed/recommended. Test suites are often the best place to start when trying to understand new code.	[reply]

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