HTTP/URL research exercises
Research online what the following are and what they do:
- The fragment part of a URL.
- The
Accept
header sent by the HTTP client. - The
User-agent
header sent by the HTTP client. What does your browser send? - How do you encode a path that contains a space in an URL? Which other characters are "special" and need to be treated this way in paths?
- Which web server is the University of Bristol using for
www.bristol.ac.uk
, according to the headers? Read up online on this server and the organisation of the same name that maintains it.