Under the Hood of HTTP
HTTP is a generic, stateless, object-oriented protocol. It is a client/server protocol located in the Application layer of the Internet protocol stack and communicates with WinSock. WinSock, or the Windows Sockets API, is a transport-level application programming interface created by Microsoft to allow third-party vendors to create applications that can easily communicate with the Windows operating system. WinSock is an extension to Berkeley Sockets, a core API developed in the UNIX environment. Moving down the protocol stack, WinSock communicates with the communication protocols on the Windows operating system, including TCP/IP. Figure 5.1 diagrams this communication.
Figure 5.1. A Web client accesses a Web server by ...
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