HTTP Message Body is the data bytes transmitted in an

HTTP HTTP (Hypertext Transfer Protocol) is an application layer protocol in the Internet protocol suite model for distributed, collaborative, hypermedia information systems. HTTP is the foundation of data communication for the World Wide Web, wher ...

transaction message immediately following the headers if there are any (in the case o
HTTP/0.9
no 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 A newline (frequently called line ending, end of line (EOL), next line (NEL) or line break) is a control character or sequence of control characters in character encoding specifications such as ASCII, EBCDIC, Unicode, etc. This character, or ...

). The empty line must consist of only and no other whitespace. 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!''.

HTTP message

Response example

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