🎯 What You'll Learn
- Understand the request/response cycle
- Use HTTP methods and headers correctly
- Interpret status codes
- Work with cookies and parameters
About This Workbook
Every web vulnerability is ultimately about HTTP requests and responses. This workbook makes the protocol second nature so you can read and craft requests with intent.
Chapter 1 — Request & Response
The fundamental exchange of the web.
- Anatomy of a request
- Anatomy of a response
- HTTP versions
Chapter 2 — Methods & Headers
The verbs and metadata that shape behaviour.
- GET/POST/PUT/DELETE
- Important headers
- Content types
Chapter 3 — State & Parameters
How stateless HTTP fakes memory.
- Cookies and sessions
- Query and body params
- Encoding
Keep going. Work through each chapter in order, then apply what you learned in the matching labs.