Hi everyone, I need your help urgently

[lovesunset21]

Hi all, I have two questions for an exam on Wednesday. I can solve part of the question and It seems impossible for me with the rest. Please help me.

Question 1:

Using netcat, nc(1), craft a valid http/1.1 request for getting http headers (not the html file itself!) for the main index page of www dot aalto dot fi. What request method did you use? Which headers did you need to send to the server? What was the status code for the request? Which headers did the server return? Explain the purpose of each header.

I try to do this question with the command:

nc -v www dot aalto dot fi 8080
HEAD / HTML/1.1
host: www dot aalto dot fi

And it returns:
200 OK
Content-Length: 858
Content-Type: text/html
Last-Modified: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:46:01 GMT
Client-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2010 14:07:36 GMT
ETag: "3bd02-0-3c7ca6c2"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
X-Pad: avoid browser bug

I really don't know what does it mean.

Question 2:

Using netcat, nc(1), start a bogus web server listening on the loopback interface port 8080. Verify with netstat(, that the server really is listening where it should be. Direct your browser to the bogus server and capture the User-Agent: header

"Direct your browser to the bogus server and capture the User-Agent: header" I don't understand this question. Please help me. I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you so much.

[kapsikum]

Question 2:

Using netcat, nc(1), start a bogus web server listening on the loopback interface port 8080. Verify with netstat(, that the server really is listening where it should be. Direct your browser to the bogus server and capture the User-Agent: header

"Direct your browser to the bogus server and capture the User-Agent: header" I don't understand this question. Please help me. I am looking forward to your reply. Thank you so much.

to start a server using net cat issue this command
nc -s 127.0.0.1 -l -p 8080

to verify it using netstat issue this command:
netstat -lnt

and observe this kind of entry exists in the output.

tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:8080 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN


Now open wireshark in and make it listen on interface lo

Last, open your web browser and type this in the address bar
h t t p : / / 127.0.0.1:8080
(sorry i m not allowed to post any knind of URL)

press enter and at this point in time you will see ur wireshark is showing you the HTTP request your browser has sent. This is know as your capture of the Http request. There will be a packet in it that shows the Http headers (basically the GET method of http). There among the Http Headers you will see you user Agent also. Ideally, it should show you the type of the client (called as user agnet) the request has come from.
in my case, i used firefox so the user agent show

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) ..... blah..blah.....

[oz]

Hi all, I have two questions for an exam on Wednesday.

Hello, and welcome to the forums!

Homework type questions aren't allowed on the forums:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/lin...ums-rules.html

...but we do wish you the very best of luck with the upcoming exam and hope you get a high score.