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Requests
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information. The server’s response includes the return of the protocol version,
status code, followed by a header that contains server information, and then the
requested data. The connection is then closed.
The Netscape Enterprise Server 4.0 supports HTTP 1.1. Previous versions of the
server supported HTTP 1.0. The server is conditionally compliant with the
HTTP 1.1 proposed standard, as approved by the Internet Engineering Steering
Group (IESG) and the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) HTTP working
group. For more information on the criteria for being conditionally compliant,
see the Hypertext Transfer Protocol—HTTP/1.1 specification (RFC 2068) at:
http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/http-charter.html
Requests
A request from a client to a server includes the following information:
• Request method
• Request header
• Request data
Request Method
A client can request information using a number of methods. The commonly
used methods include the following:
•
GET
—Requests the specified document
•
HEAD
—Requests only the header information for the document
•
POST
—Requests that the server accept some data from the client, such as
form input for a CGI program
•
PUT
—Replaces the contents of a server’s document with data from the
client