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Wireshark HTTP

The document describes the basic HTTP GET/response interaction and conditional GET/response interaction. It shows figures of HTTP requests and responses captured by Wireshark. It asks questions about the requests and responses to understand the interactions. Both the browser and server are running HTTP 1.1 in the initial request. Subsequent requests include an "If-Modified-Since" header to check if the content has changed before downloading. The server returns a 304 status to indicate the content has not changed and is in the browser cache.

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Wireshark HTTP

The document describes the basic HTTP GET/response interaction and conditional GET/response interaction. It shows figures of HTTP requests and responses captured by Wireshark. It asks questions about the requests and responses to understand the interactions. Both the browser and server are running HTTP 1.1 in the initial request. Subsequent requests include an "If-Modified-Since" header to check if the content has changed before downloading. The server returns a 304 status to indicate the content has not changed and is in the browser cache.

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HTTP

A. The Basic HTTP GET/RESPONSE interaction

Figure 1: HTTP GET request to http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-labs/HTTP-wireshark-file1.html

1. Is your browser running HTTP version 1.0 or 1.1? What version of HTTP is the server running?
What languages (if any) does your browser indicate that it can accept to the server?
Answer : Both browser and server are running HTTP version 1.1. The languages accepted by brower are
en-us and en.

2. What is the IP address of your computer? Of the gaia.cs.umass.edu server?


Answer : My IP address is 10.8.0.8 and the server’s is 128.119.245.12.

3. What is the status code returned from the server to your browser?
Answer : HTTP/1.1 200 OK (text/html).
Figure 2: HTTP response from http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-labs/HTTP-wireshark-file1.html

4. When was the HTML file that you are retrieving last modified at the server?

Answer : Last-Modified: Sun, 18 Feb Jun 2018 06:59:01 GMT


5. How many bytes of content are being returned to your browser?

Answer : Content-Length: 128

B. The HTTP CONDITIONAL GET/RESPONSE interaction

Figure 3: Contents of the first HTTP GET request to http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-labs/HTTP-


wireshark-file2.html

7. Inspect the contents of the first HTTP GET request from your browser to the server. Do you see
an “IF-MODIFIED-SINCE” line in the HTTP GET?

Answer : No

Figure 4: Response message of the first HTTP GET request from http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-
labs/HTTP-wireshark-file2.html

8. Inspect the contents of the server response. Did the server explicitly return the contents of the
file? How can you tell?

Answer : Yes because we can see the contents in the Line-based text data field.
Figure 5: Contents of the second HTTP GET request to http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-labs/HTTP-
wireshark-file2.html

9. Now inspect the contents of the second HTTP GET request from your browser to the server. Do
you see an “IF-MODIFIED-SINCE:” line in the HTTP GET? If so, what information follows the “IF-
MODIFIED-SINCE:” header?

Answer : Yes. The information following the"IF-MODIFIED-SINCE:" header is: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 6:59:02
GMT which is the date of the last modification of the file from the previous get request.

Figure 6: Response message of the second HTTP GET request from http://gaia.cs.umass.edu/wireshark-
labs/HTTP-wireshark-file2.html

10. What is the HTTP status code and phrase returned from the server in response to this second
HTTP GET? Did the server explicitly return the contents of the file?Explain.
Answer : The status code and phrase returned from the server is HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified. The
server didn’t return the contents of the file since the browser loaded it from its cache.

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