Understanding the Request / Response Cycle

Exploring the HyperText Transport Protocol

You are to retrieve the following document using the HTTP protocol in a way that you can examine the HTTP Response headers.

• http://data.pr4e.org/intro-short.txthttp://data.pr4e.org/intro-short.txt

There are three ways that you might retrieve this web page and look at the response headers:

• Preferred: Modify the following program to retrieve the above URL and print out the headers and data. Make sure to change the code to retrieve the above URL - the values are different for each URL.

  import socket
  
  mysock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_STREAM)
  mysock.connect(('data.pr4e.org', 80))
  cmd = 'GET http://data.pr4e.org/romeo.txt HTTP/1.0\r\n\r\n'.encode()
  mysock.send(cmd)
  
  while True:
      data = mysock.recv(512)
      if len(data) < 1:
          break
      print(data.decode(),end='')
  
  mysock.close()

• *Open the URL in a web browser with a developer console or FireBug and manually examine the headers that are returned.( I think it's much easier )

Enter the header values in each of the fields below and press "Submit".

Last-Modified:

Sat, 13 May 2017 11:22:22 GMT

ETag:

"1d3-54f6609240717"

Content-Length:

467

Cache-Control:

max-age=0, no-cache, no-store, must-revalidate

Content-Type:

text/plain