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Understanding HTTP Protocol Basics

HTTP uses TCP to establish a connection between a client and server. It exchanges HTTP messages in a stateless manner. The presentation covers HTTP overview, operation, requests, responses, and methods. HTTP requests contain a request line and header, while responses contain a status line, header, and requested data. Common HTTP methods are GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, and DELETE.

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Understanding HTTP Protocol Basics

HTTP uses TCP to establish a connection between a client and server. It exchanges HTTP messages in a stateless manner. The presentation covers HTTP overview, operation, requests, responses, and methods. HTTP requests contain a request line and header, while responses contain a status line, header, and requested data. Common HTTP methods are GET, POST, HEAD, PUT, and DELETE.

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Http Presentation

Presented by:Manoj Kirar


PRN-060341076
Topics Covered
 Http Overview
 Http Operation
 Http Message
 Http Method

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Http Overview
 Uses TCP:
1-client initiates TCP connection to serve
-generally port 80.
2-server accepts TCP connection from client
3-HTTP messages (application-layer
protocol messages) exchanged between
browser (client) and Web server (server).
4-TCP connection closed
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HTTP overview (cont.)
 HTTP is “stateless”
1- Server maintains no information about
past client requests.
2- Aside:
Protocols that maintain “state” are complex!
• past history (state) must be maintained
• if server/client crashes, their views of
“state” may be inconsistent
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Http Operation
1a. client initiates TCP
User enter some URL connection to HTTP server
on port 80
1b. HTTP server at host
waiting for TCP connection
at port 80 “accepts”
connection,notifying client

[Link] client sends HTTP


3. HTTP server receives request
Request message
message, forms response
(containing URL) into
message containing requested
TCP connection.
object, and sends message into
its socket

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Http Operation (Cont.)

[Link] server closes TCP


connection.

[Link] client receives


response message
containing html file, displays
html.

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Http Messages
 Two types of HTTP messages:
– Request
– Response

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Http Request Message
 ASCII(human-readable form)
GET /somedir/[Link] HTTP/1.1
Request line Host: [Link]
User-agent: Mozilla/4.0

Header line

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Method types
 HTTP/1.1
1- GET, POST, HEAD
2- PUT– uploads file in entity body to path
specifiedin URL field
3- DELETE – deletes file specified in the
URL field

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Http Response Message
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Status line(protocol status Server: Apache/1.3.0
Code) Content-Length: 6821
Content-Type: text/html

Header line

Data e.g. requested HTML file

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