5: Web Servers

Question 1

What is a web server ?

Answer 1

A file server which holds and dispenses WWW documents.

Question 2

What is HTTP ?

Answer 2

HyperText Transfer Protocol.

A protocol for messages between a client and server, eg specifying types of content (text/html) and errors (404).

Question 3

Sample HTTP commands ?

Answer 3

GET
POST
PUT

Question 4

Sample status codes ?

Answer 4

200s: Ok codes
400s: Error codes
500s: Server overload

Question 5

MIME ? Examples ?

Answer 5

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

text/plain
text/html
text/css
image/gif

Question 6

HTML tags ?

Answer 6

<h1>
</h1><p>
<a>
<ul>
<li>
</li></ul></a></p>

Question 7

CSS declarations ?

Answer 7

{ height: 100px }

Question 8

SMTP ?

Answer 8

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

Question 9

SNMP ?

Answer 9

Simple Network Management Protocol