Making an HTTP request to Google

In the URL bar, I'm going to type http://google.com. We can click Send to send off that request. Make sure you have GET chosen as your HTTP method. When I fire off the request, it comes back, and all of the data that comes back is shown in the white space:

We have things like the Status code; we have a 200, meaning things went great; we have the Time, which took about a quarter of a second; we have Headers, which are coming back from Google; we have Cookies, but there's none in this case; and we have our Body data. The body for google.com is an HTML website. For the most part, the bodies that we'll be sending ...

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