HTTP body data

HTTP Body Data is the data bytes transmitted in an HTTP transaction message immediately following the headers if there is any (in the case of HTTP/0.9 no headers are transmitted).

HTTP message

The request/response message consists of the following:

• Request line, such as GET /logo.gif HTTP/1.1 or Status line, such as HTTP/1.1 200 OK,
• Headers
• An empty line
• Optional HTTP message body data

The request/status line and headers must all end with <CR><LF> (that is, a carriage return followed by a line feed). The empty line must consist of only <CR><LF> and no other whitespace.

The "optional HTTP message body data" is what this article defines.

Sample

A Server response:

 HTTP/1.1 200 OK
 Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 22:38:34 GMT
 Server: Apache/1.3.3.7 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux)
 Last-Modified: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 23:11:55 GMT
 Content-Length: 44
 Connection: close
 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

This is the HTTP body data for this message.

See also

• HTTP
• HTTP compression
• List of HTTP headers
• List of HTTP status codes
• Web cache