http message format: request

• two types of http messages: request, response

• http request message:

  • ASCII (human-readable format)

GET /somedir/page.html HTTP/1.0

User-agent: Mozilla/4.0

Accept: text/html, image/gif,image/jpeg

Accept-language:fr

(extra carriage return, line feed)

request line

(GET, POST,

HEAD commands)

header

lines

Carriage return,

line feed

indicates end

of message

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