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{{External2|Message Body: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.3|Entity Body: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2}} | {{External2|Message Body: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec4.html#sec4.3|Entity Body: https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html#sec7.2}} | ||
The ''entity body'' (if any) sent with the HTTP request/response is in a format and encoding defined by the [[Entity HTTP Header Fields|Entity Headers]]. The entity body is obtained from the ''message body'' by applying the inverse of the transfer encoding, if any. | The ''entity body'' (if any) sent with the HTTP request/response is in a format and encoding defined by the [[Entity HTTP Header Fields|Entity Headers]]. The entity body is obtained from the ''message body'' by applying the inverse of the transfer encoding, as specified by [[HTTP Entity Header Transfer-Encoding|Transfer-Encoding]], if any. | ||
==Entity Body Type== | ==Entity Body Type== | ||
Revision as of 04:35, 6 January 2017
External
- RFC 2616 Entity https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html
Internal
Overview
The HTTP request/response may optionally transfer an entity. An entity consists of entity header fields, which are grouped together with the other headers of the request or response, and an entity-body.
The HTTP protocol requires that requests/response which include a body either use chunked transfer encoding or send a Content-Length request header.
Entity Headers
Entity Body
The entity body (if any) sent with the HTTP request/response is in a format and encoding defined by the Entity Headers. The entity body is obtained from the message body by applying the inverse of the transfer encoding, as specified by Transfer-Encoding, if any.
Entity Body Type
When an entity body is included with a message, the data type of that body is determined from the entity header fields Content-Type and Content-Encoding. These define a two-layer, ordered encoding model:
entity-body = Content-Encoding(Content-Type(data))
Entity Body Length
The length of a entity is the length of the message body before any transfer encodings have been applied.