Summary of Support Across HTTP Versions
The following is a listing of all HTTP headers supported by each version of HTTP so far.
HTTP 0.9
Method |
General |
Request |
Entity |
Response |
GET |
None |
None |
None |
None |
HTTP 1.0
Method |
General |
Request |
Entity |
Response |
GET |
Connection |
Accept |
Allow |
Location |
HEAD |
Date |
Accept-charset |
Content-encoding |
Retry-after |
POST |
MIME-version |
Accept-encoding |
Content-language |
Server |
PUT |
Pragma |
Accept-language |
Content-length |
WWW-Authenticate |
DELETE |
Authorization |
Content-type | ||
LINK |
From |
Expires | ||
UNLINK |
If-modified-since |
Last-modified | ||
Referer |
Link | |||
User-agent |
Title | |||
URL |
HTTP 1.1
Method |
General |
Request |
Entity |
Response |
OPTIONS |
Cache-control |
Accept |
Allow |
Accept-Ranges |
GET |
Connection |
Accept-charset |
Content-encoding |
Age |
HEAD |
Date |
Accept-encoding |
Content-language |
Etag |
POST |
Pragma |
Accept-language |
Content-length |
Location |
PUT |
Trailer |
Authorization |
Content-location |
Proxy-authenticate |
DELETE |
Transfer-encoding |
Expect |
Content-md5 |
Retry-after |
TRACE |
Upgrade |
From |
Content-range |
Server |
CONNECT |
Via |
Host |
Content-type |
Vary |
Warning |
If-modified-since |
Expires |
WWW-Authenticate | |
If-match |
Last-modified | |||
If-none-match | ||||
If-range | ||||
If-unmodified-since | ||||
Max-forwards | ||||
Proxy-authorization | ||||
Range | ||||
Referer TE | ||||
User-agent |
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