Prompt

Solve these questions about HTTP headers.

Walk-Through

This challenge will give you experience researching HTTP headers.

The answers to these questions can be found by doing an online search. A full table of HTTP headers can be found on Wikipedia.

Questions

What HTTP request header is used to denote what URI linked to the resource being requested?

The description for this header is, “This is the address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed.”

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Note that the official specification has the name for this header spelled incorrectly. The correct answer should use the incorrect spelling from the specification.

What HTTP request header is used to identify the client software that made the HTTP request?

The description for this header is, “The user agent string of the user agent.”

What HTTP request header is used to identify the acceptable content types that can be returned?

The description for this header is, “Media type(s) that is/are acceptable for the response. See Content negotiation.”