Which properties of HTTP waste bandwidth? What is the additional problem using HTTP/1.0 together with TCP? How does HTTP/1.1 improve the situation? The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application protocol. An HTTP
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Assignment 2 1. Which properties of HTTP waste bandwidth? What is the additional problem using HTTP/1.0 together with TCP? How does HTTP/1.1 improve the situation? The Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) is a stateless application protocol. An HTTP transaction consists of an HTTP request issued by a client and an HTTP response from a server. Stateless means that all HTTP transactions are independent of each other. HTTP does not remember and transaction, request, or response. HTTP causes many problems in wireless networks: ? Bandwidth and delay: HTTP/HTML was not designed with low bandwidth and high delay connections in mind. HTTP protocol headers are quite large and redundant. Many information fields are transferred repeatedly with each request because HTTP is stateless. Servers transfer content uncompressed. As TCP connections are typically used for each item on the web page, a huge overhead comes with each item in HTTP/1.0. Another problem is caused by the DNS look-up,...

