031.3 HTTP Basics

031.3 HTTP Basics

Reference to LPI objectives

Web Development Essentials version 1.0, Exam 030, Objective 031.3

Weight

3

Key knowledge areas

  • Understand HTTP GET and POST methods, status codes, headers and content types

  • Understand the difference between static and dynamic content

  • Understand HTTP URLs

  • Understand how HTTP URLs are mapped to file system paths

  • Upload files to a web server’s document root

  • Understand caching

  • Understand cookies

  • Awareness of sessions and session hijacking

  • Awareness of commonly used HTTP servers

  • Awareness of HTTPS and TLS

  • Awareness of web sockets

  • Awareness of virtual hosts

  • Awareness of common HTTP servers

  • Awareness of network bandwidth and latency requirements and limitations

Partial list of the used files, terms and utilities

  • GET, POST

  • 200, 301, 302, 401, 403, 404, 500

  • Apache HTTP Server (httpd), NGINX

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