URI stuff

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  • What arguments seem to be the most used? What do we think they mean?
    • user-agent: client application.
    • Server: which kind of server is running
    • language (various) - natural langauge
    • content type - application running
    • accept encoding - gzip or such
    • date
    • last-modified, expires
    • cookies


  • Can you find some URIs that use something other than "GET" when they request content?

Slashdot Poll: http://slashdot.org/pollBooth.pl - (POST)

    • get and post seemed to be most used


  • Can you find some URIs where the return is something other than 200 (OK)?

301 Moved Permanently, 302 Found - http://bookstore.rpi.edu/cas

503 Service Temporarily Unavailable - http://hf.cooliris.com/hellfire/log

204 No Content, 304 Not Modified - http://proxy.org/

404 - not found

403 - forbidden

401 - not authorized

206 partial content -- [1]

  • Can you find anything else interesting that you'd like to mention?

The class wiki seems to have a "not modified" header - http://tw.rpi.edu/course/2009/websci/URI_stuff - but only sometimes

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