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HyperText Transfer Protocol, v1.0

The original (0.9) version of HTTP was not in use for very long, being soon replaced by version 1.0. In its most basic form, a v1.0 GET request looks like: 
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0<newline><newline>
The response from the server consists of a status line, then a number of plain text headers, followed by a blank line and then the requested data object. It's clearly a very similar format to an RFC822 email message: 
GET /index.html HTTP/1.0

    HTTP/1.0 200 OK
    Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1C
    Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:48:39 GMT
    Content-type: text/html
    Last-modified: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 02:22:52 GMT
    Content-length: 11378

    <!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
    <html>
    <head>
    ........(etc)

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