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HTTP/1.1: Along with Host, send the Connection header in the request function with the value close. Your browser can now declare that it is using HTTP/1.1. Also add a User-Agent header. Its value can be whatever you want—it identifies your browser to the host. Make it easy to add further headers in the future.

From the book

Typically the same images, styles, and scripts are used on multiple pages; downloading them repeatedly is a waste. It’s generally valid to cache any HTTP response, as long as it was requested with GET and received a 200 response. Some other status codes like 301 and 404 can also be cached. Implement a cache in your browser and test it by requesting the same file multiple times. Servers control caches using the Cache-Control header. Add support for this header, specifically for no-store and max-age values. If the Cache-Control header contains any other value than these two, it’s best not to cache the response

The browser should be able to open files (just html for now, please) from the local filesystem.