HTTP Request

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. HTTP request is made from a client to a host located on the server in order to receive a resource needed to build the content; when the clients use a URL that contains the information needed to access the server resource².

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

Request Line

See request line

HTTP method (HTTP verb)

See HTTP method (HTTP verb)

HTTP request headers/ Request header fields

See HTTP request headers (Request header fields)

HTTP request body

See HTTP request body

Anki

Links

• Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP)

References