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] Identify where in RFC 2616 you found the rules for correctly responding to a correctly formatted GET request for the root directory

image Wireshark capture of the GET request packet sent to your server and the server response RFC 2616 you found the rules for correctly responding to a correctly formatted GET request for a nonexistent file Wireshark capture of the GET request for nonexistent file packet sent to your server and the server response HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:21:24 GMT (More HTTP headers...) Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<title>Yahoo!</title> (More HTML follows) As a basic test of functionality, try requesting a page using telnet: telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. GET http://127.0.0.1/path_to_html_file HTTP/1.1 When your proxy starts, the first thing that it will need to do is establish a socket connection that it can use to listen for incoming connections. Your proxy should listen on the port specified from the command line and wait for incoming client connections. Once a client has connected, the proxy should read data from the client and then check for a properly-formatted HTTP request -- but don't worry, we have provided you with libraries that parse the HTTP request lines and headers. Specifically, you will need to ensure that the server receives a request that contains a valid request line: All other headers just need to be properly formatted: : In this assignment, client requests to the proxy must be in their absolute URI form. GET http://www.cs.princeton.edu/index.html HTTP/1.1 Your browser will send absolute URI if properly configured to explicitly use a proxy (as opposed to a transparent on-path proxies that some ISPs deploy, unbeknownst to their users). On the other form, your proxy should issue requests to the webserver properly specifying relative URLs, e.g., GET /index.html HTTP/1.1 Testing Proxy Correctness To test the correctness of your program, start by running your Web server with the following command (assuming a Pythonic implementation):

python [YOUR_NAU_ID]_web_server_ec3.py port

As a basic test of functionality, try requesting a page using telnet:

telnet localhost Trying 127.0.0.1... Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1). Escape character is '^]'. GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1