Requests; Request Method - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Requests

Netscape Enterprise Server supports HTTP 1.1. Some 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:
www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2068.txt?number=2068
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
•
HEAD
•
POST
input for a CGI program
•
PUT
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—Requests the specified document
—Requests only the header information for the document
—Requests that the server accept some data from the client, such as form
—Replaces the contents of a server's document with data from the client