# Understanding how HTTP works

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-how-http-works/44980>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [August 15, 2020, 9:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-how-http-works/44980 "2020-08-15T09:08:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![oheil](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/oheil/32/220745_2.png) [@oheil](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/oheil)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2020, 9:50am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/understanding-how-http-works/44980/2 "2020-08-15T09:50:17Z")

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Welcome @Bucephalus !

It seems that your Internet is broken 😉  
Or in other words: the error message implies that you can’t connect to the URLs you are using. Maybe you are behind a proxy?

Another thing:  
Don’t post screenshots, they are difficult to spot and read.  
Just do like I do here:

```julia
julia> using HTTP

julia> HTTP.request("GET", "http://httpbin.org/ip")
HTTP.Messages.Response:
"""
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2020 09:43:28 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 33
Connection: keep-alive
Server: gunicorn/19.9.0
Access-Control-Allow-Origin: *
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true

{
  "origin": "176.199.208.97"
}
"""

```

Copy&Paste into discourse makes it easy for us to copy&paste from discourse.  
See [Please read: make it easier to help you](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/psa-make-it-easier-to-help-you/14757) for more infos.

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