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Development Tools HTTP Basics Introduction to HTTP Sending Data with a GET Request

Posted by Dmitry Dpost
Dmitry Dpost
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Sending data in GET request.

What does sort=popular HTTP/1.1 do ? Can someone clarify it please? Can I try it somewhere as we did with language=English?

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,275 Points

In the case of this quiz question, "sort=popular" is just a data item being sent with the request. What it might do would be determined by the server application; but we can guess that since this is modeled on a request of amazon.com, it would most likely return a page showing books listed with the most popular items first.

The "HTTP/1.1" part just indicates the protocol version being used for the message.