Murach's Java Servlets and JSPThis chapter introduces the HTTP protocol and surveys some of the methods of the servlet API that you can use to work with the HTTP headers and status codes of HTTP requests and responses. |
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| Chapter 15 | How to work with HTTP requests and responses | |
| An introduction to HTTP | 438 | |
| An HTTP request and response | 438 | |
| Common MIME types | 440 | |
| Common HTTP request headers | 442 | |
| Common HTTP status codes | 444 | |
| Common HTTP response headers | 446 | |
| How to work with the request | 448 | |
| How to get request headers | 448 | |
| How to display all request headers | 450 | |
| The request headers for the IE and Netscape browsers | 452 | |
| How to work with the response | 454 | |
| How to set status codes | 454 | |
| How to set response headers | 454 | |
| Practical skills for working with HTTP | 456 | |
| How to return a tab-delimited file as an Excel spreadsheet | 456 | |
| How to control caching | 456 | |
| How to encode the response with GZIP compression | 458 | |
| How to require the File Download dialog box | 460 | |
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