HTTP message body

<h2 id="http-message">HTTP message</h2>
<p>The request/response message consists of the following:
</p>
<ul><li>Request line, such as GET /logo.gif HTTP/1.1 or <a href="/facts/List_of_HTTP_status_codes/nTtX2f6r">Status</a> line, such as HTTP/1.1 200 OK,</li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_HTTP_headers/hEkcQe2f">Headers</a></li>
<li>An empty line</li>
<li>Optional HTTP message body data</li></ul>
<p>The request/status line and headers must all end with <CR><LF> (that is, a <a href="/facts/Carriage_return/R79IhpPr">carriage return</a> followed by a <a href="/facts/Line_feed/ffeJz4Nn">line feed</a>). The empty line must consist of only <CR><LF> and no other <a href="/facts/Whitespace_(computer_science)/Q5xRIaSz">whitespace</a>.
</p><p>The "optional HTTP message body data" is what this article defines.
</p>
<h2 id="response-example">Response example</h2>
<p>This could be a response from the web server:
</p>
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:26:07 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Ubuntu) mod_ssl/2.2.8 OpenSSL/0.9.8g
Last-Modified: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 22:04:35 GMT
ETag: "45b6-834-49130cc1182c0"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 12
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

Hello world!

<p>The message body (or content) in this example is the text <i>Hello world!</i>.
</p>
<h2 id="see-also">See also</h2>
<ul><li><a href="/facts/HTTP/TWtvf7JD">HTTP</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/HTTP_compression/clfoMHvy">HTTP compression</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_HTTP_headers/hEkcQe2f">List of HTTP headers</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/List_of_HTTP_status_codes/nTtX2f6r">List of HTTP status codes</a></li>
<li><a href="/facts/Web_cache/DqIBcWem">Web cache</a></li></ul>

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HTTP message body