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Table E-2
Common HTTP status codes (Continued)
Status code
Meaning
Server error. A server-related error occurred. The server administrator
500
should check the server's error log to see what happened.
503
Sent if the quality of service mechanism was enabled and bandwidth or
connection limits were attained. The server will then serve requests with
that code. See the "quality of service" section.
Response Headers
The response headers contain information about the server and the response data.
Common response headers are shown in Table E-3.
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Table E-3
Common response headers
Response header
Server
Date
Last-modified
Expires
Content-length
Content-type
WWW-authenticate
Response Data
The server sends a blank line after the last header. It then sends the response data
such as an image or an HTML page.
Description
The name and version of the web server.
The current date (in Greenwich Mean Time).
The date when the document was last modified.
The date when the document expires.
The length of the data that follows (in bytes).
The MIME type of the following data.
Used during authentication and includes information that
tells the browser software what is necessary for
authentication (such as username and password).
Appendix E
Responses
HyperText Transfer Protocol
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