Mastering Internet of Things

Applying headers

Both requests and responses contain HTTP headers. These consist of sets of key-value pairs. Normally, clients do not need to set these headers explicitly. It is typically done by the HTTP clients being used. But sometimes, you need to set some of these headers manually, to customize a request according to your needs. Following is a shot list of useful headers:

Header	Description
Accept	If the resource supports multiple content type encodings, you can specify your preference using the Accept header.
Cache-Control	Controls how the response may be cached.
Content-Type	The media type of the content payload.
ETag	An entity tag is a string identifying the content. It can be a hash value of the content, ...