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The following request is sent to the BIG-IP ASM System: Which of the following components in this requests line represent the query string?

The correct answer is D. display=yes&user=john&logon=true. In an HTTP request URL, the query string is the portion that follows the '?' character and contains key-value parameter pairs passed to the server.

Section 1: OSI Model, Network, and Application Delivery Basics

Question

The following request is sent to the BIG-IP ASM System:

Which of the following components in this requests line represent the query string?

Options

  • A.xls
  • B/week1.xls
  • C/financials/week1.xls
  • Ddisplay=yes&user=john&logon=true

How the community answered

(20 responses)
  • A
    5% (1)
  • B
    5% (1)
  • D
    90% (18)

Why each option

In an HTTP request URL, the query string is the portion that follows the '?' character and contains key-value parameter pairs passed to the server.

A.xls

'.xls' is the file extension component, which is part of the filename in the URI path and not the query string.

B/week1.xls

'/week1.xls' is the filename component of the URI path, located before the '?' delimiter that begins the query string.

C/financials/week1.xls

'/financials/week1.xls' is the full URI path component, which appears before the '?' character that separates the path from the query string.

Ddisplay=yes&user=john&logon=trueCorrect

The query string begins after the '?' delimiter in a URL and consists of one or more key-value pairs separated by '&' characters. In this request, 'display=yes&user=john&logon=true' is the query string that BIG-IP ASM parses and inspects as part of its HTTP request processing. ASM applies parameter-level security checks specifically to these query string values.

Concept tested: HTTP request query string identification in BIG-IP ASM

Source: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3986#section-3.4

Topics

#HTTP request#query string#URL components#HTTP parameters

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