HTTP Request

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About

An HTTP request is the way Internet communications platforms such as web browsers ask for the information they need to load a website1. Each HTTP request made across the Internet carries with it a series of encoded data that carries different types of information.

Contents of an HTTP Request

A typical HTTP request contains:

  1. HTTP version type
  2. a URL
  3. an HTTP method
  4. HTTP request headers
  5. Optional HTTP body

HTTP method

See HTTP method

HTTP request headers

See HTTP request headers

HTTP request body

The HTTP request body is the part that contains the ‘body’ of information the request is transferring/ submitting to the server e.g. username and password or any other data.

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References

  1. Mozilla Developer Network. “HTTP request”. Available at: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Status . (Accessed: [2025-05-06 Tue 17:43]). ↩︎

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