Chapter 9. HTTP networking and web services

In this chapter

Networking with HTTP
Parsing XML and JSON
Dealing with network failures

It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes.

Ted Stevens

9.1. Basic HTTP networking

9.2. Consuming XML and JSON web services

9.3. How to gracefully recover from network failures

9.4. Summary

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