Updated on 2022-02-21 GMT+08:00

Common Response Headers

A response usually contains the following headers:

Table 1 Common response headers

Header

Description

Example

Date

(Standard HTTP header) Time when a message is sent. The time format is defined by RFC822.

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 15:55:01 GMT

Server

(Standard HTTP header) Software information used by the server to process a request.

Apache

Content-Length

(Standard HTTP header) Size of the response body, in decimal number of bytes.

xxx

Content-Type

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

application/json