core

Web

programming

Handling the Client Request: 

HTTP Request Headers

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  2001 2003 Marty Hall, Larry Brown http://www.corewebprogramming.com

Handling the Client Request: 

HTTP Request Headers

Example HTTP 1.1 Request

GET /search?keywords=servlets+jsp HTTP/1.1

Accept: image/gif, image/jpg, */*

Accept Encoding: gzip

Connection: Keep Alive

Cookie: userID=id456578

Host: www.somebookstore.com

Referer: http://www.somebookstore.com/findbooks.html

User Agent: Mozilla/4.7 [en] (Win98; U)

It shouldn t take a rocket scientist to realize 

you need to understand HTTP to be 

effective with servlets or JSP

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