Scripting HTTP Clients and Web Interactions

Learn the Skills Needed for Scripting Your Own Web Clients
What you'll learn
Learn how Python can be used to build web clients
Leverage PowerShell for scripting HTTP interactions
Learn how cURL can give your scripts the ability to perform web operations
Master the Wget command and use it in your own scripts
Learn to issue a GET requests using a variety of script languages and tools
Get the details on how to 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 methods
Requirements
A basic understanding of the web and beginner scripting skills are helpful for getting the most our of this course.
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:
Wget
cURL
Python
PowerShell
Common scripting operations and web interactions:
GET Requests / POST Requests
Session handling
Authentication
Basic Auth
Authentication with Custom tokens, headers, and OAuth
How 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 members
What 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 servers

When 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 methods
All 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.



Who this course is for:
Python developers interesting in web clients
PowerShell developers who want to know how to build custom web interactions
Anyone interested in shell scripting with cURL or Wget
Web application testers and automation specialists
Web application security testers

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