| Header |
Description |
| Accept |
Specifies what types of media output the client is
prepared to handle. Often, a client will specify several types of media
that is can handle such as in the following case
Accept: image/gif
Accept: image/jpeg
Alternatively, a web browser might specify that it is prepared to handle
"any" media using the following line:
Accept: */*
|
| Authorization |
Specifies whether or not the user has permission
to access a secure area. |
| Content-encoding |
Specifies that the message body is encrypted, compressed,
or encoded |
| Content-type |
Indicates the media type of the information in the
message body. |
| Content-length |
Specifies the number of bytes in the message body
for requests with a message body |
| Date |
Indicates the date and time of a request if the request
has a message body |
| From |
Provides the email address of the user using the
client if it is available |
| If-modified-since |
Tells the server not to deal with the request if
the document has not been modified since a given time. |
| Mime-version |
Specifies the MIME version used to generate the message
body. |
| Pragma |
Contains any additional information that the client
wishes to specify to the server |
| Referer |
Indicates the URL of the page from which the request
was made. (This request header is misspelled in the protocol itself) |
| User-agent |
Specifies the name and version number of the web
browser making the request. |
