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The message body of a response may be referred to for convenience as a response body 1.
Message bodies are used for most responses . The exceptions are where a server is responding to a client request that used the HEAD method (which asks for the headers but not the body of the response ), and where a server is using certain status codes .
For a response to a successful request , the message body contains either the resource requested by the client , or some information about the status of the action request by the client . For a response to an unsuccessful request , the message body might provide further information about the reasons for the error , or about some action the client needs to take to complete the request successfully.
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IBM. “message body”. Available at: https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/cics-ts/6.x?topic=protocol-http-responses . (Accessed: ). ↩︎