HTTP Message Body is the data bytes transmitted in an
HTTP transaction message immediately following the
headers if there are any (in the case o
HTTP/0.9no headers are transmitted).
HTTP message
The request/response message consists of the following:
* Request line, such as
GET /logo.gif HTTP/1.1 or
Status line, such as
HTTP/1.1 200 OK,
*
Headers
* An empty line
* Optional HTTP message body data
The request/status line and headers must all end with (that is, a
carriage return followed by a
line feed). The empty line must consist of only and no other
whitespace
White space or whitespace may refer to:
Technology
* Whitespace characters, characters in computing that represent horizontal or vertical space
* White spaces (radio), allocated but locally unused radio frequencies
* TV White Space Database, a mec ...
.
The "optional HTTP message body data" is what this article defines.
Response example
This could be a response from the web server:
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:26:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Last-Modified: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:04:35 GMT
ETag: "45b6-834-49130cc1182c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 12
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
Hello world!
The message body (or content) in this example is the text ''Hello world!''.
See also
*
HTTP
*
HTTP compression
*
List of HTTP headers
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to:
People
* List (surname)
Organizations
* List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America
* SC Germania List, German rugby uni ...
*
List of HTTP status codes
*
Web cache
Application layer protocols
Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Internet protocols
Network protocols
World Wide Web Consortium standards
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