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Foil 16 HTTP - GET Request Example

From Setting the Stage for CGI Programming: HTTP, URL, CGI, MIME, HTTPD ECS400 Senior Undergraduate Course -- Spring Semester 1996. by Nancy J. McCracken * See also color IMAGE
GET /document.html HTTP/1.0
Accept: www/source
Accept: text/html
Accept: image/gif
User-Agent: Lynx/2.2 libww/2.14
From: mnotulli@ukonaix.cc.ukans.edu
  • -- blank-line-terminating-the-request --
First line syntax is always: METHOD URL ProtocolVersion
The following lines form a header of an (extended) MIME message
"User-Agent" specifies the browser type
"Accept" specifies MIME types recognized by the browser
The server is expected to provide the requested data in one of these acceptable formats.

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