Networking and protocols

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Concepts

• IP; TCP; UDP; QUIC
• TCP handshake; retransmission; congestion control; flow control; keepalive
• DNS; recursive resolution; TTL; negative caching
• TLS; certificate chains; hostname verification; mutual TLS
• HTTP/1.1; HTTP/2; HTTP/3; head-of-line blocking
• Connection pooling; connection reuse; proxies; NAT; load balancing
• HTTP methods; status codes; headers; content negotiation; compression
• Cookies; sessions; CORS; same-origin policy
• WebSockets; SSE; polling; long polling
• Connection timeout; read timeout; idle timeout; deadlines; jitter

Further reading

Reference links for this topic.

• MDN Web Docs
• Linux manual pages