The Journey of a Request to the Backend
The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser
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How to Decode HTTP Requests
Decoding essentially is like referring to what am I reading, right, the actual request itself. It's often happening after so that you we need whatever you got as a request are this text is this binary? What is it really? And if it's text is it as key is it UTF-8? Because the byte might look the same. But if it's ASCII, it might look completely different than if it's, you know, Unicode. So yeah, throwing the stick decoding this based on the language of the backend language here. That's just one space or decoding. In inUTF-8 can take up to four bytes for certain characters. Like I think Kanji can take
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