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The message body of a response may be referred to for convenience as a response body1.
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: ). ↩︎