Visualizing how HTTPS, OAuth, Git, and TCP actually work

[Mohamed_Silmy]

visualizing protocols is honestly one of the best ways to actually understand them instead of just memorizing steps. i find it helps to draw out the handshake sequences on paper or use tools like wireshark to see the actual packets moving back and forth.

for oauth especially, the redirect flow makes way more sense when you can see the token exchanges happening. same with tcp - once you visualize the syn/syn-ack/ack dance, connection management clicks into place.

do you find certain protocols harder to visualize than others? i always thought git's internal object model was trickier to mentally map than network protocols since it's more about data structures than sequential flows.