Interactive end-of-chapter exercises


The HTTP GET message

Consider the figure below, where a client is sending an HTTP GET message to a web server, gaia.cs.umass.edu




Suppose the client-to-server HTTP GET message is the following:

GET /kurose_ross_sandbox/interactive/quotation9.htm HTTP/1.1
Host: gaia.cs.umass.edu
Accept: text/plain, text/html, text/xml, image/gif, image/png, audio/basic, audio/mp4, video/wmv, video/mp4,
Accept-Language: en-us, en-gb;q=0.2, en;q=0.6, fr, fr-ch, zh, da, ar
If-Modified-Since: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:34:43 -0800
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)



Question List


1. What is the name of the file that is being retrieved in this GET message?

2. What version of HTTP is the client running?

3. True or False: The client will accept html files

4. True or False: The client will accept jpeg images

5. What is the client's preferred version of English?

6. What is the client's least preferred version of English?

7. True or False: The client will accept the German language

8. True or False: The client already has a cached copy of the file




Solution


1. The name of the file is quotation9.htm.

2. The client is running on HTTP/1.1

3. True. In the 'Accept' field the client includes 'text/html' files.

4. False. The client does NOT include 'image/jpeg' in its 'Accept' field.

5. The client's preferred version of English is American English. Any language without a defined q value has a default value of 1

6. The client's least preferred version of English is British English because it has the lowest q value.

7. False. The client does NOT include German in its 'Accepted-Language' field.

8. True. The client has a cached copy of the file that was updated on: Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:34:43 -0800



That's incorrect

That's correct

The answer was: quotation9.htm

Question 1 of 8

The answer was: HTTP/1.1

Question 2 of 8

The answer was: True

Question 3 of 8

The answer was: False

Question 4 of 8

The answer was: American English

Question 5 of 8

The answer was: British English

Question 6 of 8

The answer was: False

Question 7 of 8

The answer was: True

Question 8 of 8

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