HTTP Request Message Format
The client initiates an HTTP session by opening a TCP connection to the HTTP server with which it wishes to communicate. It then sends HTTP Request messages to the server, each of which specifies a particular type of action that the user of the HTTP client would like the server to take. Requests can be generated either by specific user action (such as clicking a hyperlink in a web browser) or indirectly as a result of a prior action (such as a reference to an inline image in an HTML document leading to a request for that image).
HTTP Request messages use a format that is based on the generic message format described in the previous section, but specific to the needs of requests. The structure of this format is as follows ...
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