HTTP: A Closer Look

• Sample HTTP Response Message

  • MIME-version and Content-type tell the type of file being retrieved
  • For HTML document, text/plain

HTTP/1.1 200 OK[CRLF]Date: Tuesday, 20-JAN-1999 18:32:15 GMT[CRLF]Server: name of server software[CRLF]MIME-version: 1.0[CRLF]Content-type: text/plain[CRLF][CRLF]File to be downloaded.

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