{"id":17484,"date":"2021-11-11T11:02:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/?p=17484"},"modified":"2021-11-11T11:02:01","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T10:02:01","slug":"my-first-25-years-of-http","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/2021\/11\/11\/my-first-25-years-of-http\/","title":{"rendered":"My first 25 years of HTTP"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I like figuring out even or somehow particularly aligned numbers and dates to celebrate. Here’s another one: today marks the day when httpget 0.1<\/strong> was released in 1996.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

httpget 0.1 was a tiny command line tool written by Rafael Sagula<\/em>. It was less than 300 lines of C code. (Today, the product code is 173,000 lines!)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I found httpget just days after it was released when I was searching for a tool to use for downloading currency rates with from an HTTP site. This was the time before Google existed so I assume I used Altavista or something. I can’t remember actually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The httpget source code was my initial step into the HTTP world. In many ways, reading that code opened my eyes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course there was some issues with the code that I can’t remember any longer, but I very soon sent Rafael my first patches to improve it. A few weeks later I took over maintenance of the little tool. The rest is documented elsewhere<\/a>. The oldest httpget source code I still have around is httpget 1.3<\/a>, released sometime between April and August 1997.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have since been working with HTTP pretty much daily. For twenty-five years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If someone tries to tell you that HTTP is an easy or simple protocol, don’t believe them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like figuring out even or somehow particularly aligned numbers and dates to celebrate. Here’s another one: today marks the day when httpget 0.1 was released in 1996. httpget 0.1 was a tiny command line tool written by Rafael Sagula. It was less than 300 lines of C code. (Today, the product code is 173,000 … Continue reading My first 25 years of HTTP<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10629,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17484"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17761,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17484\/revisions\/17761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/daniel.haxx.se\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}