Common headers that are responses by the web servers

What are headers and how is it used in HTTPS

Created: 2022-06-29
Tags: #permanent


Abstract:

  • Set-Cookie
  • Cache-Control
  • Content-Length
  • Content-Encoding

Response is WEB SERVER SENDING DATA to your computer.

  • Information to store which gets sent back to the web server on each request.

Cache-Control

  • how to store cache before it requests again

Content-Length

  • It helps us verify if there's no missing data. Basically, it tells us how long the response is.

Content-Type:

  • This tells us what information is being sent, (pdf, html, txt and etc)

Content-Encoding:

  • Method that is used to compress the data

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