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A web developer has created a custom HTTP call to a backend application. The HTTP headers being sent by the HTTP call are: `` GET / HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: MyCustomApp (v1.0) Accept: text/html…
The correct answer is A. The client request does NOT include a Host header. See the full explanation below for the reasoning.
Question
A web developer has created a custom HTTP call to a backend application. The HTTP headers being sent by the HTTP call are:
GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: MyCustomApp (v1.0)
Accept: text/html
Cache-Control: no-cache
Connection: keep-alive
Cookie: somecookie=1
The backend server is responding with the following:
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request
Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2012 17:22:41 GMT
Connection: close
Why is the HTTP web server responding with a HTTP 400 Bad Request?Options
- AThe client request does NOT include a Host header.
- BThe User-Agent header contains an invalid character.
- CThe web server is NOT expecting a keep-alive connection.
- DThe web server is configured to accept HTTP 1.0 requests only.
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(46 responses)- A74% (34)
- B13% (6)
- C4% (2)
- D9% (4)
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