GET REQUESTS

Ahhhh- the GET request. The language of the internet. What is it? Well, honestly it’s just a bunch of text being sent from clients to servers and vis versa. The way that this text is being sent around is via REQUESTS and RESPONSES. A client will make a request to a server, which will then serve that client a response.

All requests consists of two things:

An end Point:
- which also consists of two things:
  - a method - Usually GET, POST, PUT/PATCH, or DELETE
  - a URL: This is where we specify our desired path for our request. e.g. /download
- Headers Request headers consist of one or more key-value pairs. E.g. HOST: jquery.com

This is the bare minimum ingredients needed to make a successful HTTP GET request.

The actual request would look like this:

GET /download HTTP/1.1
Host: jquery.com