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 i'm thinking of writing an  "implement a toy version of HTTP in a weekend” guide, similar to https://implement-dns.wizardzines.com/, but not sure what would be fun to include

thinking of:

1. sending a simple HTTP GET or POST request over a TCP socket
2. some very very basic header/status code parsing

what would you be interested in seeing in there, if you're curious to learn more about HTTP? As usual the goal is just to write a fun throwaway implementation, not something resilient