HTTP Request

This is an example of a basic HTTP request made from the browser:

GET / HTTP/1.1
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT)
Host: www.tutorialspoint.com
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: Keep-Alive

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The first line is a request line. It has:

Method (GET, POST, HEAD, ...)
Location (the request resource, file)
HTTP version

HTTP Response

HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n
Content-Type: text/html\r\n
Content-Length: 88\r\n
Connection: Closed\r\n
\r\n
<HTML>

Content-Length is the length of the body (in the response case is the length of html page)

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