How the web works
16-minute lesson · module-webapps-01
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How the web works
16-minute lesson · module-webapps-01
- Describe the client/server model and what each side is responsible for.
- Trace one HTTP request/response round trip, including method and status code.
- Read a URL and name its scheme, host, path, and query string.
- Recognize common status codes (200, 301, 404, 500) and what they signal.
Source attribution
Status: adapted
How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Interactive Edition — source · Web Applications / How The Web Works / How Web Applications Work
Adaptation notes. Read-along lesson. Web servers cannot run inside the Pyodide sandbox, so there is no graded coding step — just a short video framing and a reading with diagrams-in-prose and example request/response transcripts. Prose is original; the bookstore/courses examples are ours.
License notes. Original chapter is GNU FDL 1.3 (Brad Miller, David Ranum, and the upstream Elkner/Downey/Meyers text). No verbatim text reproduced.