GATE IT 2005 | Question: 25

Question

Consider the three commands : PROMPT, HEAD and RCPT.
Which of the following options indicate a correct association of these commands with protocols where these are used?

• A. HTTP, SMTP, FTP
• B. FTP, HTTP, SMTP
• C. HTTP, FTP, SMTP
• D. SMTP, HTTP, FTP

Comments

common SMTP command can be found out here.

https://users.cs.cf.ac.uk/Dave.Marshall/PERL/node175.html

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https://www.nsftools.com/tips/MSFTP.htm#prompt

https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html

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Option B is correct

Answer 1

RCPT: Recipient to, As the name suggests it is used in SMTP(Simple Mail Transfer Protocol)

HEAD: this is used in HTTP to get the meta-information, to decide the category of the packet.

PROMPT: turns off prompting for individual files when using the mget or mput commands. Use this command if you do not want to be prompted for each file transfer when transferring multiple files.

Correct Answer: B

Comments

Nice

Answer 2

Option-B
PROMPT is usually used by FTP .

Head is usually used by the HTTP to get information about metadata of page.

Where is RECPT::It is used by SMTP to know address of the receiver.

Answer 3

PROMPT → FTP : In FTP (File Transfer Protocol), PROMPT is used in command-line clients to toggle prompting during multiple file transfers.

HEAD → HTTP : In HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol), HEAD is a method used to retrieve the headers of a resource, similar to GET but without the response body.

RCPT → SMTP : In SMTP (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol), RCPT TO: is a command used to specify the recipient of an email.

Correct Option is $(B)$.

Answer 4

COMMENT BELOW IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT

Answer 5

Recognize the common commands:

• HEAD — an HTTP method (like GET) that requests only the headers (meta-information) of a resource.

• RCPT (as in RCPT TO:) — an SMTP command used to specify an email recipient.

• PROMPT — a client command commonly found in FTP command-line clients (toggles prompting when doing multiple file transfers).