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Discussion on: Why should I care about HTTP?

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Devon Campbell

Thanks for the question, Nicholas. I don't think there's really any source code associated with the protocol itself. The protocol just defines what the messages look like. It's up to developers to implement the protocol into servers and clients that will send and receive HTTP requests. Many of those are open source.

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Nicholas Fazzolari

Thanks for the response. I found this github.com/http2/http2-spec/wiki/I... list of implementations, and looking at some I can see that implementing communication protocols is very involved.