October 2010
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01: Universal Redirect Locomotive
Did you ever lie awake at night wondering if the HTTP spec was Turing-complete? Just me? Damn.
First, a bit of background. The hypertext transfer protocol is the web’s standard way of piping bits around the globe. It’s the agreement between servers and clients for how to send, retrieve, modify, and delete data (and properties of that data) over the web. For the purpose of this...