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HTTP: Response Messages

HTTP: Response Messages

Let's look at what HTTP response messages look like!

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Introduction

Let’s start with a typical example of an HTTP response message:

Shell
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Connection: close
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15: 44 : 04 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
Last-Modified: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:11:03 GMT 
Content-Length: 6821
Content-Type: text/html
[The object that was requested]

It has 3 parts: an initial status line, some header lines and an entity body.

Note: HTTP response messages don’t have the URL or the method fields. Those are strictly for request messages.

Status Line

  • HTTP response status lines start with the HTTP version.

Status Code

  • The status code comes next which tells the client if the request succeeded or failed.
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