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1 The HTTP Protocol http://www.w3.org/Protocols/
COSC 2206 Internet Tools The HTTP Protocol

2 What is TCP/IP? TCP: Transmission Control Protocol
IP: Internet Protocol These network protocols provide a standard method for sending and receiving messages over the Internet/ HTTP sits on top of TCP/IP as an application layer protocol that provides client-server communication. 4/5/2019 BGA

3 What is HTTP? Hypertext Transport Protocol (1.1)
It is the protocol that web servers and clients use to communicate on the internet. The web client is normally a browser on a client machine. Web server is a server such as Apache that receives HTTP requests from a client and sends an HTTP response back to a client. 4/5/2019 BGA

4 Try this using windows telnet
Run apache telnet localhost 80 ^] to get prompt (control + ]) ? to get help (there is an open command) o localhost 80 GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost Now press enter to see HTTP response This is the HTTP request 4/5/2019 BGA

5 blank line is important
HTTP Response HTTP/ OK Date: Tue, 22 Jun :20:03 GMT Server: Apache/ (Win32) PHP/4.3.7 Last-Modified: Sat, 06 Dec :38:57 GMT ETag: "0-76-3fd1f811" Accept-Ranges: bytes Content-Length: 118 Content-Type: text/html <html> <head><title>My Home Page</title></head> <body> <h1>My Home Page</h1> <img src="apache_pb.gif"> </body> </html> HTTP response headers blank line is important 4/5/2019 BGA

6 Client/Server communication
Web Server (e.g. Apache) Web Client (browser) HTTP Response HTTP Request 4/5/2019 BGA

7 Uniform Resource Locator
Client uses URL to inform server what resourse is requested (also a universal resource location). Format is scheme://host:port/path?queryString#fragment Examples: The default port is 80 and isn't specified 4/5/2019 BGA

8 Virtual Path The path part of a URL is a virtual path and does not need to be a path on the server's file system Example Here the actual directory on the server for the HelloWorld servlet on my computer is c:/tomcat/webapps/test/WEB-INF/classes 4/5/2019 BGA

9 Absolute Path absolute path (absolute URL) Example
completely specifies the path to a resource using a complete URL Example 4/5/2019 BGA

10 Relative Path (no leading /)
Given a document whose absolute URL is Suppose this document contains the links <a href="test.php">...</a> <a href="jsp/index.html">...</a> Then the absolute URL's are 4/5/2019 BGA

11 Relative Path (leading /)
Given a document whose absolute URL is Suppose this document contains the links <a href="/test.php">...</a> <a href="/jsp/index.html">...</a> Then the absolute URL's are 4/5/2019 BGA

12 Query String (1) The query string is an encoded string of name value pairs with the format ?name1=value1&name2=value2& ... URL encoding is needed to include special characters such as =, # and /. Each special character is encoded as %HH where HH is the hex representation Spaces can be encoded as + characters or as %2B 4/5/2019 BGA

13 Query String (2) Encode the characters
; / ? & = + $ , space character: + or %2B delimiters: < > # % " others: { } | \ ^ [ ] ` In PHP there is a special function called rawurlencode that can do this. Other web languages have similar functions. 4/5/2019 BGA

14 Query String (3) In a GET request from a client the name-value pairs are sent to the server and are made available to a script such as a PHP script, or to a Java servlet. The other way to send values to the server that does not use a query string is using a POST request. More on GET and POST later 4/5/2019 BGA

15 The HTTP Request The client sends information to the server using an HTTP request. There are three ways to send the request click on a link in an HTML document that corresponds to a URL on the server: can either retrieve document or execute script type a URL into the browsers location or address field Click on a form submission button 4/5/2019 BGA

16 HTTP Request Methods The most important methods are
GET HEAD POST There are several other methods that are not often used: DELETE, OPTION, TRACE, PUT 4/5/2019 BGA

17 HTTP GET Method Request to retrieve a document or execute a script
Not supposed to modify data stored on the web server or in an associated database Used to return static or dynamic HTML documents and images, results of database queries. Can be bookmarked since query string is part of the URL. 4/5/2019 BGA

18 HTTP HEAD Method Request information about a document such as its last modified date so browser can decide whether to fetch it from server or from cache It's like a GET request but no document is sent back by the server. 4/5/2019 BGA

19 HTTP POST Method Used in conjunction with HTML forms to send form data (name-value pairs) to the server. After the blank line at end of headers the form data is sent as name-value pairs. Use this method if data stored on the server is modified (e.g, rows in database table) Cannot be bookmarked. 4/5/2019 BGA

20 Name value pairs separated by a colon
Example HTTP Request GET index.html HTTP/1.1 Host: localhost Accept: image/gif, image/jpg, */* Accept-Language: en Connection: Keep-Alive User-Agent: browser info goes here Name value pairs separated by a colon 4/5/2019 BGA

21 Request Headers Accept Accept-Charset Accept-Encoding Accept-Language
MIME types the browser will accept Accept-Charset the character sets the browser understands Accept-Encoding Encodings such as gzip that browser accepts Accept-Language languages such as en that browser accepts 4/5/2019 BGA

22 Request Headers Authorization Connection Content-length
Username/password of browser user Connection indicates if browser can handle persistent connections for multiple file/image requests Content-length number of bytes in request content: used only by POST request to give size of post data being sent on server's standard input stream 4/5/2019 BGA

23 Request Headers Cookie Host If-Modified-Since
Returns name/value pair to server that was set by server on a previous connection. Host The hostname of the target (required) If-Modified-Since page should be send only if it has been modified since the specified date 4/5/2019 BGA

24 Request Headers If-Unmodified-Since Referer User-Agent
opposite of If-Modified-Since (for PUT requests) Referer URL that referred user to specified resource The spelling mistake must be made (Use Referer not Referrer) User-Agent information on browser making the request 4/5/2019 BGA

25 Example HTTP Response HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: date information goes here
status line HTTP/ OK Date: date information goes here Server: Apache/ (Unix) Last-Modified: date info goes here Content-Length: 141 Content-Type: text/html HTML document index.html goes here blank line necessary 4/5/2019 BGA

26 Server Response Status Codes
: informational codes : The request was successful : File has moved Location header indicates the new address 301 means that browser will automatically submit a new request for the redirected resource : Client error was made : Server error was made 4/5/2019 BGA

27 Common Status Codes 200 OK 204 No Content 301 Moved Permanently
Successful request for a document The document is included in the response 204 No Content 301 Moved Permanently 302 Found (Location header) 404 Not Found 500 Internal Server Error 4/5/2019 BGA

28 MIME Types Multi-part internet mail extensions Examples:
text/plain, text/html image/gif, image/jpg, image/png application/x-gzip application/zip 4/5/2019 BGA

29 Response Headers Allow Cache-Control Connection
request methods such as GET, POST that server supports Cache-Control various options for client side caching Connection whether to use persistent connections or not 4/5/2019 BGA

30 Response Headers Content-Encoding Content-Language Content-Base
gzip, for example Content-Language language of the document Content-Base base URL used to resolve relative URL's in the document 4/5/2019 BGA

31 Response Headers Content-Length Content-Type Expires
Length in bytes of the response's content Content-Type Media type e.g., text/plain, text/html, or image/jpg Expires for a document that changes frequently this tells broswer not to use a cached version 4/5/2019 BGA

32 Response Headers Last-Modified Location Refresh
when the document was last changed. Useful in caching Location new document address Refresh refresh document again after specified number of seconds 4/5/2019 BGA

33 Response Headers Retry-After Server Set-Cookie
how soon to repeat document request Server Name and version of the Web server Set-Cookie request to have browser set a cookie and return it on future requests 4/5/2019 BGA

34 Response Headers WWW-Authenticate
Specifies the authorization scheme and the realm 4/5/2019 BGA

35 CGI Common Gateway Interface
The original way for servers to provide dynamic content by executing external server-side scripts (e.g. Perl) Server provides script with an environment Script provides the dynamic page Inefficient since a new process is started on the server for each client request 4/5/2019 BGA

36 CGI CGI Script Server Browser
environment vars working directory files, if any Response: HTML Doc Some headers response content on standard output Request Browser 4/5/2019 BGA

37 CGI Environment Variables (1)
DOCUMENT_ROOT Root directory of your web server HTTP_COOKIE Client's cookie, if one has been set HTTP_HOST The host name of the web server HTTP_REFERER URL of page that called your script 4/5/2019 BGA

38 CGI Environment Variables (2)
HTTP_USER_AGENT Client's browser type string HTTPS indicates if script is invoked by a secure server PATH Path to your server QUERY_STRING string of name value pairs sent by client 4/5/2019 BGA

39 CGI Environment Variables (3)
REMOTE_ADDR IP address of the client REMOTE_HOST IP address or hostname of the client REMOTE_PORT Port tht client is connected to REMOTE_USER client's user name if applicable 4/5/2019 BGA

40 CGI Environment Variables (4)
REQUEST_METHOD GET or POST REQUEST_URI Document path relative to document root SCRIPT_FILENAME Full path name of the script SCRIPT_NAME path relative to document root 4/5/2019 BGA

41 CGI Environment Variables (5)
SERVER_ADMIN address of server's web master SERVER_NAME The URL of the server SERVER_PORT Port number on which server is listening SERVER_SOFTWARE String describing the server software and version 4/5/2019 BGA

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