HTTP Entity Headers

by Jeff Hunter, Sr. Database Administrator

Introduction

The following table lists the standard entity-header fields defined by HTTP/1.1; these are headers that may be included in a client request or server response to provide meta information about the request of reponse body.

HTTP Entity Headers

HTTP Entity Headers
Header	Function
Allow	Specifies the request methods supported by the object
Content-Encoding	Specifies the encoding of the object
Content-Language	Specifies the language of the object
Content-Length	Specifies the length of the object
Content-Location	Specifies the actual location of the object
Content-MD5	Specifies an MD5 message digest of the object
Content-Range	Specifies the range of objects includes
Content-Type	Specifies the MIME type of the object
Expires	Specifies when the returned object expires
Last-Modified	Specifies when the returned obect was last modified