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Android P is Here

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We expected Android P to arrive in Mid March but Google surprised us all and just released it out of the blue. Yes Android P is here when Android Oreo is on less than 2% of all Android devices but that's a topic for another time right now let's talk about Android P. Here's the Android P Developer Preview on a Pixel 2 XL so let's take a look at all of the changes and new features in Android Pie ,Android Pancake, Android Peanut Butter or whatever they'll call it.  First and foremost Android P brings a lot of visual changes I mean if you look at the home screen it looks very similar to Android Oreo but there are a lot of changes. Here's what I'm talking about as is customary for every new Android version the quick settings pane has received a complete makeover with nice rounded buttons for all the toggles that now look really iOS like. To be honest I like this new design so I have no complaints and although the looks have changed it works pretty...

HTTP, HTTPS and SSL/TLS Certifications

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In this post I'm going to be explaining HTTP, HTTPS and SSL / TLS. HTTP is the protocol that helps us browse the Internet. So lets start in 1989 a guy called Tim berners-lee who worked for CERN started development of HTTP. HTTP stands for HyperText Transfer Protocol and is used to exchange our transfer hypertext. HTTP resides on the application layer of the OSI model on layer 7. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the web and this is how the web works when it comes to delivering webpages.  Let's dig a little deeper into this protocol it is a TCP / IP based protocol and things such as images tags documents audio and video can all be transmitted through it. HTTP works on a request and response cycle where the client requests a webpage so for example if you browse to Google Daugherty UK you are requesting a web page from the server and the server will deliver you a response.  HTTP is a stateless protocol what this means is that the server does not...

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