A Tour of the HTTP/1.0 Response Headers

HTTP/1.0 200 OK

An ordinary plain text status line -- note the "200-series" status.
 

Server: Netscape-Enterprise/3.5.1C
Date: Tue, 20 Mar 2001 11:48:39 GMT
Last-modified: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 02:22:52 GMT

Various entertaining bits of information. The "Last-modified:" header can be quite useful, see the HTTP/1.0 "HEAD" request, later.
 

Content-length: 11378
Content-type: text/html

These two headers follow (approximately) the MIME convention for identifying the type of data contained in the "body" of the response -- in this case, plain text which should be interpreted as HTML by the browser. Note that MIME email-header "Content-Encoding:" (used in MIME-encoded email messages) is not normally used in HTTP because the protocol is designed to handle "8-bit" data. That is, any data at all can be sent after the blank line which signifies the end of the response headers.