August 2003
Intermediate to advanced
736 pages
14h 14m
English
Topics in This Chapter
Format of the HTTP response
Setting response headers
Understanding what response headers are good for
Building Excel spread sheets
Generating JPEG images dynamically
Sending incremental updates to the browser
As discussed in the previous chapter, a response from a Web server normally consists of a status line, one or more response headers (one of which must be Content-Type), a blank line, and the document. To get the most out of your servlets, you need to know how to use the status line and response headers effectively, not just how to generate the document.
Setting the HTTP response headers often goes hand in hand with setting the status codes in the status line, ...
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