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Hands-On Network Programming with C
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Hands-On Network Programming with C

by Lewis Van Winkle
May 2019
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
11h 21m
English
Packt Publishing
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HTTP request format

If you open your web browser and navigate to http://www.example.com/page1.htm, your browser will need to send an HTTP request to the web server at www.example.com. That HTTP request may look like this:

GET /page1.htm HTTP/1.1User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36Accept-Language: en-USAccept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflateHost: example.comConnection: Keep-Alive

As you can see, the browser sends a GET request by default. This GET request is asking the server for the document /page1.htm. A GET request consists of HTTP headers only. There is no HTTP body because the client isn't sending data to the server. The client is only requesting ...

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ISBN: 9781789349863