lab_riddles/notes.md

Request and response notes

Checkpoint 1

Read the request and response shown on lines 1-32 of the lab. Choose five lines from the request and/or the response. For each, make an inference about the meaning of the line, and some situation in which it might be useful. You are welcome to research the meanings of these headers, but it's also fine to speculate for now.

Line 5: Keeps the connection open for multiple requests/responses.

Line 6: Shows where the request is being sent

Line 7: This shows who is making the HTTP request.

Line 13: This shows the length of the requested information.

Line 14: This shows the filetype of what was requested.

Checkpoint 2

The goal of this checkpoint is to see what status codes you can get back from the riddle server. Paste below several http requests and the status codes they return.

400 Bad Request:

http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=1000 answer="a short-legged cow" http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=invalid_id answer="a short-legged cow"

404 Not Found:

http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess/this_is_wrong id=1 answer="a short-legged cow" http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guessssssssssssssss id=1 answer="a short-legged cow"

405 Method Not Found:

http -v posts https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=1 answer="a short-legged cow" http -v invalidmethod https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=1 answer="a short-legged cow"