Solutions to Chapter 2 Problems

a) A user requests a Web page that contains of some text and three images. For this page, the client will send one request message and receive four response messages. b) 2.Two distinct Web pages (for example, www.mit.edu/research.html and www.mit.edu/students.html) can be sent over the same persistent connection. c) 3.With non-persistent connections between browser and origin server, it is possible for a single TCP segment to carry two distinct HTTP request messages. d) 4.The Date: header in the HTTP response message indicates when the object in the response was last modified. e) 5.HTTP response messages never have an empty message body.