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Common HTTP 1.1 Request 

Headers

Accept

Indicates MIME types browser can handle

Can send different content to different clients

Accept Encoding 

Indicates encodings (e.g., gzip) browser can handle

See following example

Authorization

User identification for password protected pages.

Instead of HTTP authorization, use HTML forms to send 

username/password. Store in session object. 

For details on programming security manually and 

using web.xml to tell the server to enforce security 

automatically, see More Servlets and JavaServer 

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