We covered a lot in this chapter, and for good reason. HTTP is, as I suggest in the title of this chapter, integral to programming software being able to function on the web. We learned about the distinctions between application-layer protocols and transport-layer protocols with a bit more clarity and context. We explored the history of HTTP, and saw how its design lent itself for use far beyond its original intended purpose.
Once we had that background, we looked at the Web API project template, and learned how .NET Core leverages the cross-platform Kestrel web server to expose network-aware applications to incoming requests. We looked at how to configure our web server using the WebHostBuilder extension classes. We learned how to configure our application code for use on our web server, in our given hosting environment, using the Startup.cs class. Then we took the time...
