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1⟩ What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?

Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a networking protocol for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web.

The standards development of HTTP has been coordinated by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium, culminating in the publication of a series of Requests for Comments (RFCs), most notably RFC 2616 (June 1999), which defines HTTP/1.1, the version of HTTP in common use

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2⟩ What is HTTP session?

HTTP session is a sequence of network request-response transactions. An HTTP client initiates a request. It establishes a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) connection to a particular port on a host (typically port 80; see List of TCP and UDP port numbers). An HTTP server listening on that port waits for a client's request message. Upon receiving the request, the server sends back a status line, such as "HTTP/1.1 200 OK", and a message of its own, the body of which is perhaps the requested resource, an error message, or some other information.

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3⟩ What is a Request message?

The request message consists of the following:

► Request line, such as GET /images/logo.png HTTP/1.1, which requests a resource called /images/logo.png from server

► Headers, such as Accept-Language: en

► An empty line

► An optional message body

The request line and headers must all end with <CR><LF> (that is, a carriage return followed by a line feed). The empty line must consist of only <CR><LF> and no other whitespace. In the HTTP/1.1 protocol, all headers except Host are optional.

A request line containing only the path name is accepted by servers to maintain compatibility with HTTP clients before the HTTP/1.0 specification in RFC1945

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4⟩ What are request methods?

HEAD

Asks for the response identical to the one that would correspond to a GET request, but without the response body. This is useful for retrieving meta-information written in response headers, without having to transport the entire content.

GET

Requests a representation of the specified resource. Requests using GET (and a few other HTTP methods) "SHOULD NOT have the significance of taking an action other than retrieval". The W3C has published guidance principles on this distinction, saying, "Web application design should be informed by the above principles, but also by the relevant limitations." See safe methods below.

POST

Submits data to be processed (e.g., from an HTML form) to the identified resource. The data is included in the body of the request. This may result in the creation of a new resource or the updates of existing resources or both.

PUT

Uploads a representation of the specified resource.

DELETE

Deletes the specified resource.

TRACE

Echoes back the received request, so that a client can see what (if any) changes or additions have been made by intermediate servers.

OPTIONS

Returns the HTTP methods that the server supports for specified URL. This can be used to check the functionality of a web server by requesting '*' instead of a specific resource.

CONNECT

Converts the request connection to a transparent TCP/IP tunnel, usually to facilitate SSL-encrypted communication (HTTPS) through an unencrypted HTTP proxy.

PATCH

Is used to apply partial modification

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5⟩ Explain Safe methods?

Some methods (for example, HEAD, GET, OPTIONS and TRACE) are defined as safe, which means they are intended only for information retrieval and should not change the state of the server. In other words, they should not have side effects, beyond relatively harmless effects such as logging, caching, the serving of banner advertisements or incrementing a web counter. Making arbitrary GET requests without regard to the context of the application's state should therefore be considered safe.

By contrast, methods such as POST, PUT and DELETE are intended for actions which may cause side effects either on the server, or external side effects such as financial transactions or transmission of email. Such methods are therefore not usually used by conforming web robots or web crawlers, which tend to make requests without regard to context or consequences.

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6⟩ Explain Idempotent methods and web applications?

Methods PUT and DELETE are defined to be idempotent, meaning that multiple identical requests should have the same effect as a single request. Methods GET, HEAD, OPTIONS and TRACE, being prescribed as safe, should also be idempotent, as HTTP is a stateless protocol.

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7⟩ What is Status codes?

In HTTP/1.0 and since, the first line of the HTTP response is called the status line and includes a numeric status code (such as "404") and a textual reason phrase (such as "Not Found"). The way the user agent handles the response primarily depends on the code and secondarily on the response headers. Custom status codes can be used since, if the user agent encounters a code it does not recognize, it can use the first digit of the code to determine the general class of the response.

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8⟩ What is Persistent connections?

In HTTP/0.9 and 1.0, the connection is closed after a single request/response pair. In HTTP/1.1 a keep-alive-mechanism was introduced, where a connection could be reused for more than one request.

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9⟩ What is Secure HTTP?

There are currently two methods of establishing a secure HTTP connection: the https URI scheme and the HTTP 1.1 Upgrade header, introduced by RFC 2817. Browser support for the Upgrade header is, however, nearly non-existent, so HTTPS is still the dominant method of establishing a secure HTTP connection. Secure HTTP is notated by the prefix https:// instead of http:// on web URIs.

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10⟩ What is https URI scheme?

https is a URI scheme that is, aside from the scheme token, syntactically identical to the http scheme used for normal HTTP connections, but which signals the browser to use an added encryption layer of SSL/TLS to protect the traffic. SSL is especially suited for HTTP since it can provide some protection even if only one side of the communication is authenticated. This is the case with HTTP transactions over the Internet, where typically only the server is authenticated

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11⟩ From what HTTP messages are made?

HTTP messages are made of a header and a body. The body can often remain empty; it contains data that you want to transmit over the network, in order to use it according to the instructions in the header. The header contains metadata, such as encoding information; but, in the case of a request, it also contains the important HTTP methods. In the REST style, you will find that header data is often more significant than the body.

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12⟩ What is cURL in HTTP?

cURL is a command line tool that is available on all major operating systems.

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13⟩ What are the mean of HTTP verbs?

HTTP verbs tell the server what to do with the data identified by the URL.

HTTP verbs tell the server what to do with the data identified by the URL. The request can optionally contain additional information in its body, which might be required to perform the operation - for instance, data you want to store with the resource. You can supply this data in cURL with the -d option.

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14⟩ Described the most important HTTP verbs?

If you've ever created HTML forms, you'll be familiar with two of the most important HTTP verbs: GET and POST. But there are far more HTTP verbs available. The most important ones for building Restful API are GET, POST, PUT and DELETE. Other methods are available, such as HEAD and OPTIONS, but they are more rare (if you want to know about all other HTTP methods, the official source is IETF).

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15⟩ For what purposes POST is used?

POST is used when the processing you wish to happen on the server should be repeated, if the POST request is repeated (that is, they are not idempotent; more on that below). In addition, POST requests should cause processing of the request body as a subordinate of the URL you are posting to.

In plain words:

1 POST /clients/

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16⟩ What are the safe and unsafe methods of HTTP?

safe methods are those that never modify resources. The only safe methods, from the four listed above, is GET. The others are unsafe, because they may result in a modification of the resources.

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17⟩ What is Representations in HTTP?

The HTTP client and HTTP server exchange information about resources identified by URLs.

We can sum up what we have learned so far in the following way: the HTTP client and HTTP server exchange information about resources identified by URLs.

We say that the request and response contain a representation of the resource. By representation, we mean information, in a certain format, about the state of the resource or how that state should be in the future. Both the header and the body are pieces of the representation.

The HTTP headers, which contain metadata, are tightly defined by the HTTP spec; they can only contain plain text, and must be formatted in a certain manner.

The body can contain data in any format, and this is where the power of HTTP truly shines. You know that you can send plain text, pictures, HTML, and XML in any human language. Through request metadata or different URLs, you can choose between different representations for the same resource. For example, you might send a webpage to browsers and JSON to applications.

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18⟩ What is HTTP Client Libraries?

cURL is, more often than not, the HTTP client solution of choice for PHP developers.

To experiment with the different request methods, you need a client, which allows you to specify which method to use. Unfortunately, HTML forms do not fit the bill, as they only allow you to make GET and POST requests. In real life, APIs are accessed programmatically through a separate client application, or through JavaScript in the browser.

This is the reason why, in addition to the server, it is essential to have good HTTP client capabilities available in your programming language of choice.

A very popular HTTP client library is, again, cURL. You've already been familiarized with the cURL command from earlier in this tutorial. cURL includes both a standalone command line program, and a library that can be used by various programming languages. In particular, cURL is, more often than not, the HTTP client solution of choice for PHP developers. Other languages, such as Python, offer more native HTTP client libraries.

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19⟩ What is the mean of 201 Created HTTP response codes?

This indicates the request was successful and a resource was created. It is used to confirm success of a PUT or POST request.

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20⟩ What is the mean of 400 Bad Request HTTP response codes?

The request was malformed. This happens especially with POST and PUT requests, when the data does not pass validation, or is in the wrong format.

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44 HTTP Questions And Answers

1⟩ What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?

2⟩ What is HTTP session?

3⟩ What is a Request message?

4⟩ What are request methods?

5⟩ Explain Safe methods?

6⟩ Explain Idempotent methods and web applications?

7⟩ What is Status codes?

8⟩ What is Persistent connections?

9⟩ What is Secure HTTP?

10⟩ What is https URI scheme?

11⟩ From what HTTP messages are made?

12⟩ What is cURL in HTTP?

13⟩ What are the mean of HTTP verbs?

14⟩ Described the most important HTTP verbs?

15⟩ For what purposes POST is used?

16⟩ What are the safe and unsafe methods of HTTP?

17⟩ What is Representations in HTTP?

18⟩ What is HTTP Client Libraries?

19⟩ What is the mean of 201 Created HTTP response codes?

20⟩ What is the mean of 400 Bad Request HTTP response codes?

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Home Protocols HTTP

44 HTTP Questions And Answers

1⟩ What is Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)?

2⟩ What is HTTP session?

3⟩ What is a Request message?

4⟩ What are request methods?

5⟩ Explain Safe methods?

6⟩ Explain Idempotent methods and web applications?

7⟩ What is Status codes?

8⟩ What is Persistent connections?

9⟩ What is Secure HTTP?

10⟩ What is https URI scheme?

11⟩ From what HTTP messages are made?

12⟩ What is cURL in HTTP?

13⟩ What are the mean of HTTP verbs?

14⟩ Described the most important HTTP verbs?

15⟩ For what purposes POST is used?

16⟩ What are the safe and unsafe methods of HTTP?

17⟩ What is Representations in HTTP?

18⟩ What is HTTP Client Libraries?

19⟩ What is the mean of 201 Created HTTP response codes?

20⟩ What is the mean of 400 Bad Request HTTP response codes?

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