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HTTP - Message Examples
HTTP - Message Examples
Example 1
HTTP request to fetch hello.htm page from the web server running on tutorialspoint.com.
Cpent request
GET /hello.htm 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-Apve
Server response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:28:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Last-Modified: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:15:56 GMT Content-Length: 88 Content-Type: text/html Connection: Closed
<html> <body> <h1>Hello, World!</h1> </body> </html>
Example 2
HTTP request to fetch t.html page that does not exist on the web server running on tutorialspoint.com.
Cpent request
GET /t.html 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-Apve
Server response
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2012 10:36:20 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Content-Length: 230 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Connection: Closed
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>404 Not Found</title> </head> <body> <h1>Not Found</h1> <p>The requested URL /t.html was not found on this server.</p> </body> </html>
Example 3
HTTP request to fetch hello.htm page from the web server running on tutorialspoint.com, but the request goes with an incorrect HTTP version:
Cpent request
GET /hello.htm HTTP1 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT) Host: www.tutorialspoint.com Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: Keep-Apve
Server response
HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2012 10:36:20 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Content-Length: 230 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Connection: Closed
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html> <head> <title>400 Bad Request</title> </head> <body> <h1>Bad Request</h1> <p>Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.<p> <p>The request pne contained invapd characters following the protocol string.<p> </body> </html>
Example 4
HTTP request to post form data to process.cgi CGI page on a web server running on tutorialspoint.com. The server returns the passed name after setting them as cookies:
Cpent request
POST /cgi-bin/process.cgi HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT) Host: www.tutorialspoint.com Content-Type: text/xml; charset=utf-8 Content-Length: 60 Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: Keep-Apve first=Zara&last=Ap
Server response
HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:28:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Content-Length: 88 Set-Cookie: first=Zara,last=Ap;domain=tutorialspoint.com;Expires=Mon, 19- Nov-2010 04:38:14 GMT;Path=/ Content-Type: text/html Connection: Closed
<html> <body> <h1>Hello Zara Ap</h1> </body> </html>Advertisements