Lecture 05 - Applications #3.1: HTML and HTTP Basics

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

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