Basic HTML version of Foils prepared May 3 97

Foil 32 HTTP - GET Request Example

From Introduction to Architecture of World Wide Web Professional Web Certificate -- April - August 97. by Nancy J. McCracken


1 GET /document.html HTTP/1.0
2 Accept: www/source
3 Accept: text/html
4 Accept: image/gif
5 User-Agent: Lynx/2.2 libww/2.14
6 From: mnotulli@ukonaix.cc.ukans.edu
  • -- blank-line-terminating-the-request --
7 First line syntax is always: METHOD URL ProtocolVersion
8 The following lines form a header of an (extended) MIME message
9 "User-Agent" specifies the browser type
10 "Accept" specifies MIME types recognized by the browser
11 The server is expected to provide the requested data in one of these acceptable formats.

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