What is a request? The message behind every tap

Lesson 3 of the journey of a tap: what's actually inside the little message your phone sends, and the answer that comes back. Aliteq Sam Ortega · Build Editor

A request is a message: method, address, headers, body

A response comes back with a status code (2xx fine, 4xx your mistake, 5xx theirs)

Buttons aren't the only way to send a request, so the server must check every one

Anything your buttons can do, a script can do without the buttons, as fast as it likes. So every request must be checked on the server: is this person logged in, are they allowed, and have they done…

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