This Post comes form a mix of having to deal with corporate firewalls that break HTTPS connections for my day job, and because someone mentioned some issues introduced by Russia mandating blocks and how they are implemented. What’s required to GET content via http To figure out what happens when we get some resource via http, let’s do exactly that and look at the network while this happens. To do this, I set up a fresh ubuntu (24.04.01) live boot and started to listen on the network with tcpdump -s 65535 -w /tmp/google.com.pcap and ran curl http://www.google.com. To analyze the .