Computer Science · Oct / Nov 2025 · Paper 12 · Question 6

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The question as text

An online clothing company has a homepage at the uniform resource locator (URL) https://www.cieclothes.com/index.html

Read automatically from the paper; the printed page above is exact.

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6(a)[3]
One mark for each correct label
Protocol
Domain name
Web page name // file name
6(b)[3]
Any three from:
It examines each request/incoming transmission
It can slow down the rate at which/limits the number of requests sent to the server
It can use caching …
… to respond to the request (rather than forwarding it to the server)
It can stop any requests from a certain IP
6(c)[5]
One mark for each correct missing term or definition.
Term
Description
hypertext markup language
It is the language that is often used to
(HTML)
write/author web pages.
domain name server (DNS)
It is a system that stores URLs/domain
names and their matching/corresponding
IP addresses // It is a system that
provides the matching IP address for a
webpage to the web browser.
IP address
It is a numerical address used to locate
the web server.
SSL/TLS/HTTPS
It is a secure protocol that can be used
to transmit data sent to and from a web
server.
web browser
It is a piece of software that is used to
display web pages.
6(d)[3]
One mark for each correct missing term in the correct place.
Cookies are stored and managed by the web browser.
Session cookies are temporary files that are created when a user visits a web page.
Persistent cookies are permanent files that are created when a user visits a web page.

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