Common Response Headers

A response usually contains the following headers:

Table 1 Response headers

Name

Description

Example

Date

(Standard HTTP header) Time when a message is sent. This field complies with RFC822 definitions.

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:55:01 GMT

Server

(Standard HTTP header) Software that a server uses to process the request.

Apache

Content-Length

(Standard HTTP header) Length of the response body, which is represented by a decimal number and stored in bytes.

xxx

Content-Type

(Standard HTTP header) Media type of the response body sent to the recipient.

application/json