Description
Have you ever felt constrained by a web browser and wanted to directly interact with a web application? Have you ever needed to automate web operations? Then you need to learn skills for Scripting HTTP Clients and Web Interactions. What is the purpose of this course? The goal is to give you the building blocks that you need in order to start scripting HTTP operations. Learn to script your own HTTP clients and more! We're going to show you how to script these interactions using a variety of tools and languages. Get exposure to scripting with cURL, Wget, Python, and PowerShell. All in One Course! Why these languages and tools?They are all very much cross-platform give you good coverage in terms of options - maybe you only have command shell access. Maybe you have PowerShell but not Python... we want to provide flexible options for handling the scripting HTTP. Scripting tools and languages covered: WgetcURLPythonPowerShellCommon scripting operations and web interactions: GET Requests / POST RequestsSession handlingAuthentication Basic Auth Authentication with Custom tokens, headers, and OAuthHow can scripting web client help your career?Automation is key to efficiency and return on investment: Script functional testing scenarios Automate basic security testing Develop scripts for junior team membersWhat can you do with your own custom HTTP client? Automatically extract information from the web Script web application transactions Simulate users Post or upload data to web serversWhen trying to script HTTP interactions, it usually comes down to knowing how to: Issue a GET request Send data to a site using a POST operation Work with multiple different requests all within a single session Handle HTTP response contents, headers, cookies, and other data structures Authenticate using different methodsAll of of lessons will be structured around showing you how to accomplish these tasks using different tools and scripting languages. When finished, you should have a solid understanding of how to script HTTP interactions in a variety of ways. This leaves you at the beginning.... able to go forward and develop your own scripts to automate how you work with the web.
