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/quotation5.htm HTTP/1.0
Host: gaia.cs.umass.edu
If-Modified-Since: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:24:08 -0800


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 already has a cached copy of the file



Solution


1. The name of the file is quotation5.htm.

2. The client is running on HTTP/1.0

3. True. The client has a cached copy of the file that was updated on: Wed, 22 Jan 2025 14:24:08 -0800


That's incorrect

That's correct

The answer was: quotation5.htm

Question 1 of 3

The answer was: HTTP/1.0

Question 2 of 3

The answer was: True

Question 3 of 3

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