HTTP Response Message

An HTTP Response Message is a response message that abides by an HTTP protocol.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) contain an HTTP Response Status Line as the first line (consisting of the HTTP protocol version followed by a numeric HTTP status code and its associated textual phrase, with each element separated by SP characters.).
  • It can (typically) contain an HTTP Response Header.
  • It can (typically) contain an HTTP Message Body.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2004 12:07:48 GMT
Server: IBM_CICS_Transaction_Server/3.1.0(zOS)
Content-type: image/jpg
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • HTTP Request Message.
• See: HTTP Status Code.

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References

1999

• http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec6.html
  • After receiving and interpreting a request message, a server responds with an HTTP response message.

 Response      = Status-Line               ; Section 6.1
                       *(( general-header    ; Section 4.5
                       | response-header    ; Section 6.2
                       | entity-header ) CRLF)  ; Section 7.1
                       CRLF
                       [ message-body ]          ; Section 7.2

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