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Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET
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Designing Evolvable Web APIs with ASP.NET

by Glenn Block, Pablo Cibraro, Pedro Felix, Howard Dierking, Darrel Miller
March 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
538 pages
13h 19m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Appendix B. HTTP Headers

Table B-1. Message headers
HeaderDescriptionReference

Cache-Control

Gives instructions to caching mechanisms that the request/response passes through related to its cachability.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-21#section-7.2

Connection

Gives options that are specific to the current connection and should not be passed on to proxies.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-21#section-6.1

Date

Specifies the date and time the message originated.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p2-semantics-21#section-8.1.1.2

Pragma

Specifies to caches that they should always revalidate a response they have cached. It exists for backward compatibility with HTTP 1.0 clients and is deprecated in HTTP 1.1 by the Cache-Control header.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p6-cache-21#section-7.4

Transfer-Encoding

Indicates if the message body has had any transformation applied to it in order to transfer it between the sender and the recepient.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-21#section-3.3.1

Upgrade

Allows the client to specify that it would like to use additional protocols if the server is willing to switch.

http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-httpbis-p1-messaging-21#section-6.3

Via

Used by gateways and proxies, it contains the intermediate protocols and recepients between the client and the server on requests, and the server and client on responses. This header is very useful in a response from a TRACE request. ...

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