HTTP

Question 1

What is a client?

Answer 1

service requesters

Question 2

What is a server?

Answer 2

providers of resource or service

Question 3

Which HTTP method does a browser issue to a web server when you visit a URL?

Answer 3

Get

Question 4

What three things are on the start-line of an HTTP request message?

Answer 4

HTTP Method, The request target, HTTP version.

Question 5

What three things are on the start-line of an HTTP response message?

Answer 5

The protocol version, usually HTTP/1.1.. status code, A status text. A brief, purely informational, textual description of the status code to help a human understand the HTTP message.

Question 6

What are HTTP headers?

Answer 6

It lets the client and the server pass additional information with an HTTP request or response. For example the date request or response happened, the location of the client or server. similar to head element of html document. metadata. ex. what type of data it is sending.

Question 7

Where would you go if you wanted to learn more about a specific HTTP Header?

Answer 7

MDN

Question 8

Is a body required for a valid HTTP request or response message?

Answer 8

no, responses with a status code that sufficiently answers the request without the need for corresponding payload (like 201 Created or 204 No Content) usually don’t. body is where we get the data. ex. status code 201