Herong's Tutorial Notes on Web Service and SOAP
Dr. Herong Yang, Version 4.00

Examples of HTTP 1.1 Requests and Responses

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This section provides some tutorial examples of HTTP 1.1 requests and responses. Real examples from perl.org and w3.org Web sites are included.

Let's use my Perl socket test program to send HTTP 1.1 requests to some popular Web servers.

HTTP 1.1 request requires the "Host" header line. I need to create a new request file with an extra line, http_1_1_get.req. Don't forget to have 2 new line (\n) characters to end the file. 

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.perl.org

Here is my test with www.perl.org: 

\herong>SocketRequestResponse.pl www.perl.org 80 http_1_1_get.req
   http_get.res

\herong>type http_get.res
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: ... 2009
Server: Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) mod_perl/1.29
P3P: CP="NOI DEVo TAIo PSAo PSDo OUR IND UNI NAV", policyref="/w3c...
Last-Modified: ... 2009
Content-Length: 14341
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Via: 1.1 combust.perl.org
Vary: Accept-Encoding

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"...
<head>
    <title>The Perl Programming Language - www.perl.org</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf...
	<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/css/leostyle...
	<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/css/site.css...

    <meta name="description" content="The Perl Programming Languag...

My second test is www.w3.org: 

\herong>type http_1_1_get.req
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: www.w3.org



\herong>SocketRequestResponse.pl www.w3.org 80 http_1_1_get.req
   http_get.res

\herong>type http_get.res
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: ... 2009
Server: Apache/2
Content-Location: Home.html
Vary: negotiate,accept
TCN: choice
Last-Modified: ... 2009
ETag: "6edd-47b73401de880;89-3f26bd17a2f00"
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 28381
Cache-Control: max-age=600
Expires: ... 2009
P3P: policyref="http://www.w3.org/2001/05/P3P/p3p.xml"
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://w...
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"...
<!-- Generated from data/head-home.php, ../../smarty/{head.tpl} --...
<head>
<title>World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"...
<link rel="Help" href="/Help/" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/2008/site/css/minimum" type="text/cs...
<style type="text/css" media="print, screen and (min-width: 481px)...
...
</style>
<link href="/2008/site/css/minimum" rel="stylesheet" type="text/cs...
<meta name="viewport" content="width=320" />

Last update: 2009.

Sections in This Chapter

SocketRequestResponse.pl - Socket Level Testing Program

Examples of HTTP 1.0 Requests and Responses

Examples of HTTP 1.1 Requests and Responses

SOAP 1.1 Request - Content-Length Too Small

SOAP 1.1 Request - Content-Length Too Large

SOAP 1.1 Request and Response of GetSpeech

SOAP 1.2 Request and Response of GetSpeech

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2009
Examples of HTTP 1.1 Requests and Responses