When the app sends a request to https://api.example.com, what happens at the TLS level before the first byte comes back?
DNS, then TCP, then the TLS handshake (certificate verification and key exchange), then HTTP over the encrypted channel. Asymmetric crypto is used only for key agreement and signature verification; the actual data is encrypted symmetrically with a session key.
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