HTTP Entity

External

• RFC 2616 Entity https://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec7.html

Internal

• HTTP

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.

Subjects

• Entity HTTP Header Fields

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-header fields.