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HyperText Transfer Protocol, v1.0

The original (0.9) version of HTTP was not in use for very long, being quickly 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: Sun, 16 Mar 2004 11:48:39 GMT
Content-type: text/html
Last-modified: Fri, 14 Mar 2004 02:22:52 GMT
Content-length: 11378

<!doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en">
<html>
<head>

    ........(etc)
Lecture 05: Applications #3.1: HTML and HTTP Basics Copyright © 2005 P.Scott, La Trobe University Bendigo.


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