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question 2., Yes, this lab made me realize that every app or website I use is constantly sending and receiving HTTP requests in the background. Even simple actions, like loading a playlist or checking the weather, involve multiple requests and responses I never notice. It makes me appreciate how much coordination happens behind the scenes to make technology feel instant and seamless.
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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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Answers:
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line: Connection: keep-alive
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This line may mean to keep the webpage open until closed.
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line: Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:25:26 GMT
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The above line may mean the date in which you accessed the derver
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line: "question": "Where do you get dragon milk?"
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This could be the question in text on the webpage
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Line: Content-Type: application/json
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This could mean that the application is made by a user named json???
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Server: nginx/1.22.0 (Ubuntu)
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This may mean what the name of the server you accessed is called.
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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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BELOW I EXCLUDED THE ANSWEDR TO GET A 400 CODE
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mattd@Decker:~/making_with_code/mwc2/unit1/lab_riddles$ http -v post https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=1
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POST /guess HTTP/1.1
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Accept: application/json, */*;q=0.5
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Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
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Connection: keep-alive
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Content-Length: 11
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Content-Type: application/json
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Host: riddles.makingwithcode.org
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User-Agent: HTTPie/3.2.2
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{
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"id": "1"
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}
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HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
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Connection: keep-alive
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Content-Length: 51
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Content-Type: application/json
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Cross-Origin-Opener-Policy: same-origin
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:50:39 GMT
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Referrer-Policy: same-origin
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Server: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
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X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
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X-Frame-Options: DENY
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{
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"errors": {
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"answer": [
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"This field is required."
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]
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}
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}
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FOR EXAMPLE 2 I REMOVE THE S IN HTTPS
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mattd@Decker:~/making_with_code/mwc2/unit1/lab_riddles$ http -v post http://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess id=1 answer
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="a short-legged cow"
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POST /guess HTTP/1.1
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Accept: application/json, */*;q=0.5
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Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
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Connection: keep-alive
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Content-Length: 43
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Content-Type: application/json
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Host: riddles.makingwithcode.org
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User-Agent: HTTPie/3.2.2
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{
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"answer": "a short-legged cow",
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"id": "1"
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}
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HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
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Connection: keep-alive
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Content-Length: 178
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Content-Type: text/html
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Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:52:51 GMT
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Location: https://riddles.makingwithcode.org/guess
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Server: nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)
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<html>
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<head><title>301 Moved Permanently</title></head>
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<body>
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<center><h1>301 Moved Permanently</h1></center>
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<hr><center>nginx/1.24.0 (Ubuntu)</center>
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</body>
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</html> |