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Lane Wagner
Instructor
Lane is a back-end engineer and the lead instructor of Boot.dev. He has taught over one million students worldwide, on Boot.dev, FreeCodeCamp, YouTube and the Backend Banter podcast. Lane worked as a backend engineer writing Go, Python and TypeScript, then moved into engineering management and a couple of years later left to build Boot.dev full-time.
Completion
Certificate included
Format
Interactive coding
Freemium
Build HTTP clients in Go from scratch
Parse and handle JSON responses
Implement secure HTTPS communication
Work with headers, methods, and authentication
Handle errors and validate responses
Learn the backbone of the modern web: HTTP network communications. You will be writing real HTTP requests in Go, then parsing and displaying the responses. Each challenge in this course is part of a larger application so that you will understand how HTTP is used in the real world.
Learn about HTTP and how it powers the majority of web communication
Learn one of the most popular data formatting notations in the programming world
Learn about domain names and how they map human-readable names to physical servers
Understand URIs and URLs at a deeper level
Practice adding custom headers to HTTP requests and learn about authorization
Learn about GET, POST, PUT, and DELETE requests
Learn how URL paths and query parameters relate to typical HTTP requests
Learn how to encrypt HTTP requests and keep them secure
Learn how to handle errors in Go
Use cURL and jq to make HTTP requests from the command line
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