Hypertext Transfer Protocol - Response Message

Response Message

See also: HTTP response

The response message consists of the following:

  • A Status-Line (for example HTTP/1.1 200 OK, which indicates that the client's request succeeded)
  • Headers, such as Content-Type: text/html
  • An empty line
  • An optional message body

The Status-Line and headers must all end with (a carriage return followed by a line feed). The empty line must consist of only and no other whitespace.

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