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Office Hours last week. 1. I use Steam regularly when I play games. I would think that there are many webs of POST and GET requests within that enable online connections, downloading and saving game data etc. I think the Steam client probably communicates with the game servers with the POST and GET requests to accompolish this. 2. Yeah I would say so! I didn't know about either type of the requests before so I think I learned about how things work. Very vaguely I knew that anything we do on the Internetis basically an endless transmission of data but I never considered the technicality of transmissions that take place.
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# Request and response notes
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## Checkpoint 1
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Read the request and response shown on lines 1-32 of the lab. Choose
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five lines from the request and/or the response. For each, make an inference
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about the meaning of the line, and some situation in which it might be useful.
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You are welcome to research the meanings of these headers, but it's also
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fine to speculate for now.
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- Line 6 (Host): I think this line shows where the pulled data is hosted, in this case the mwc website.
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- Line 7: (User-Agent): I was curious why this line said "HTTPie" instead of "HTTP" so I wanted to research it. Apparently this line shows a version of HTTP that is used for APIs, improving the user-friendliness.
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- Line 4: (Connection): I think this line ensures that the connection between the host and the user stays "alive" until the user (maybe also host?) shuts it down.
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- Line 14 (Content-Type): This line shows the type of program the user operates.
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- Line 18 (Server): I think this line shows the version and name of the program the user operates.
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## Checkpoint 2
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The goal of this checkpoint is to see what status codes you can get back from
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the riddle server. Paste below several `http` requests and the status codes
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they return.
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1.
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http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=20 answer="to get to the other side"
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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2.
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http -v get https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/answer id=4
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HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
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3.
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http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/new question="Why did the fly never land on the computer" answer="He was afraid of the world wide web"
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK
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4.
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http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=11 answer="it's me"
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HTTP/1.1 200 OK |