Example 1

HTTP requests that the hello.htm page be removed from the server running on tutorialspoint.com .

Client requires:

 GET /hello.htm HTTP / 1.1 
 User-Agent: Mozilla / 4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT) 
 Host: www.tutorialspoint.com 
 Accept-Language: en-us 
 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate 
 Connection: Keep-Alive 

Server responds:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:28:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Last-Modified: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:15:56 GMT Content-Length: 88 Content-Type: text/html Connection: Closed 

 Hello, World! 

Example 2

HTTP requests to remove t.html pages that do not exist on the server running on tutorialspoint.com.

Client requires:

GET / t.html HTTP/1.1 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT) Host: www.tutorialspoint.com Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: Keep-Alive

Server responds:

HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2012 10:36:20 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Content-Length: 230 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Connection: Closed 

 404 Not Found 

 Not Found 

 The requested URL /t.html was not found on this server. 

Example 3

HTTP requests that the hello.htm page be removed from the server running on tutorialspoint.com but the request comes with an incorrect HTTP version:

Client requires:

GET /hello.htm HTTP1 User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT) Host: www.tutorialspoint.com Accept-Language: en-us Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate Connection: Keep-Alive

Server responds:

HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2012 10:36:20 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Content-Length: 230 Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 Connection: Closed 

 400 Bad Request 

 Bad Request 

 Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand. 

 The request line contained invalid characters following the protocol string. 

Example 4

HTTP requests to send sample data to process.cgi page on a server running on tutorialspoint.com . The server returns the transferred name after setting them as cookies:

Client requires:

 POST /cgi-bin/process.cgi HTTP / 1.1 
 User-Agent: Mozilla / 4.0 (compatible; MSIE5.01; Windows NT) 
 Host: www.tutorialspoint.com 
 Content-Type: text / xml; charset = utf-8 
 Content-Length: 60 
 Accept-Language: en-us 
 Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate 
 Connection: Keep-Alive 

 first = Zara & last = Ali 

Server responds:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK Date: Mon, 27 Jul 2009 12:28:53 GMT Server: Apache/2.2.14 (Win32) Content-Length: 88 Set-Cookie: first=Zara,last=Ali;domain=tutorialspoint.com;Expires=Mon, 19- Nov-2010 04:38:14 GMT;Path=/ Content-Type: text/html Connection: Closed 

 Hello Zara Ali 

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