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Response Header

A response header is an HTTP header that can be used in an HTTP response and that doesn't relate to the content of the message. Response headers, like Age , Location or Server are used to give a more detailed context of the response.

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Response header

Not all headers appearing in a response are categorized as response headers by the specification. For example, the Content-Type header is a representation header indicating the original type of data in the body of the response message (prior to the encoding in the Content-Encoding representation header being applied). However, "conversationally" all headers are usually referred to as response headers in a response message.

The following shows a few response and representation headers after a GET request.

http
                                    
                                        200 OK

                                        
                                            Access-Control-Allow-Origin
                                            :
                                            *
                                        
                                        
                                            Connection
                                            :
                                            Keep-Alive
                                        
                                        
                                            Content-Encoding
                                            :
                                            gzip
                                        
                                        
                                            Content-Type
                                            :
                                            text/html; charset=utf-8
                                        
                                        
                                            Date
                                            :
                                            Mon, 18 Jul 2016 16:06:00 GMT
                                        
                                        
                                            Etag
                                            :
                                            "c561c68d0ba92bbeb8b0f612a9199f722e3a621a"
                                        
                                        
                                            Keep-Alive
                                            :
                                            timeout=5, max=997
                                        
                                        
                                            Last-Modified
                                            :
                                            Mon, 18 Jul 2016 02:36:04 GMT
                                        
                                        
                                            Server
                                            :
                                            Apache
                                        
                                        
                                            Set-Cookie
                                            :
                                            mykey=myvalue; expires=Mon, 17-Jul-2017 16:06:00 GMT; Max-Age=31449600; Path=/; secure
                                        
                                        
                                            Transfer-Encoding
                                            :
                                            chunked
                                        
                                        
                                            Vary
                                            :
                                            Cookie, Accept-Encoding
                                        
                                        
                                            X-Backend-Server
                                            :
                                            developer2.webapp.scl3.mozilla.com
                                        
                                        
                                            X-Cache-Info
                                            :
                                            not cacheable; meta data too large
                                        
                                        
                                            X-kuma-revision
                                            :
                                            1085259
                                        
                                        
                                            x-frame-options
                                            :
                                            DENY
                                        
                                    
                                

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Updated on April 20, 2024 by Datarist.