HTTP Response

External

• RFC 2616 Section 6 Response https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec6.html

Internal

• HTTP
• HTTP Request

Overview

A HTTP response consists of a status line, followed by an optional set of headers, followed by blank line followed by an optional message body.

This is a simple example:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: text/html
HttpServer: Test Server
Content-Length: 1024

...
...

The Response Status Line

The status line includes the status code. More about status codes: HTTP Status Codes.

The Message Body

More about HTTP response: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html.

The HTTP Response Headers

• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers