Summary

Now that HTTP requests and responses have been covered, you should have a general understanding of the basic syntax of HTTP messages as well as a good introduction to some of the HTTP headers that can be included in those messages.

The following chapter covers general headers. These headers can be included in either HTTP requests or HTTP responses and contain information pertaining to the transaction itself.

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