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HTTP - Message Examples

The document provides 4 examples of HTTP requests and responses. Example 1 shows a GET request for a web page and the 200 OK response. Example 2 shows a GET request for a non-existent page and the 404 Not Found response. Example 3 shows an incorrect GET request that produces a 400 Bad Request response. Example 4 shows a POST request that submits form data and the response sets cookies and displays the submitted data.

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HTTP - Message Examples

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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-Alive

Server response

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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

<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.

Client 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-Alive

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>

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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:

Client 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-Alive

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 line contained invalid 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:

Client request

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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-Alive

first=Zara&last=Ali

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=Ali;domain=tutorialspoint.com;Expires=Mon, 19-
Nov-2010 04:38:14 GMT;Path=/
Content-Type: text/html
Connection: Closed

<html>

<body>
<h1>Hello Zara Ali</h1>
</body>

</html>