Learning Exercise

HTTP/1.1 Exercise  

This exercise is based on: http://www.tutorialspoint.com/http/    

Assumptions:  

1.     All requests and responses are based on HTTP/1.1.

2.     The connection should be closed after completing each response.

3.     A response can be cached for 1 week, if necessary.  

Question 1  

Give the HTTP request and response for getting webpage.htm from a web server running on web.abc.com, with the following requirements:  

1.     British English is preferred, but other type of English is also acceptable.

2.     Preferred encoding methods are: compress (q=1), gzip (q=0.8) and identity (q=0.5).

3.     The resource webpage.htm is already cached in the client browser with ETag "12abc34".

4.     The web server is “Apache/2.2.14” running on a 32 bit Windows.

5.     The resource in the server has not been changed (i.e., local cached copy can be used).    

Question 2  

Give the HTTP request and response for getting webpage.htm from a web server running on web.abc.com with the following requirements:  

1.     Get the resource if it has been modified since 2015-12-25 10:00:00.

2.     The preferred character is UTF-8, but ISO-8859-1 is also acceptable.

3.     The client only requests for the subsequent 1000 bytes starting from byte 500 and the last 500 bytes of the response.

4.     The web server is “Microsoft-IIS/8.0”.

5.     The resource on the server has been modified at 2016-01-12 19:15:56.

6.     The response should not be cached.