POST /posts/42/comments HTTP/1.1\r\n
Host: www.my-api.com\r\n
Accept: application/json\r\n
Authorization: Bearer N2E5NTU2MzQ5MGQ4N2UzNjIxOTY2ZDU1M2YwNjA3OGFjYjgyMjU4NQ\r\n
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, br\r\n
Content-Type: application/json\r\n
Content-Length: 28\r\n
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.13; rv:58.0)\r\n
\r\n
{"text":"this is a comment"}
Line 1 is the request line and contains 3 tokens:
POST
= the request method/posts/42/comments
= the request URIHTTP/1.1
= the protocol
The lines that follow are the request headers.
The line with /r/n
signals the end of the request headers and anything after is the request body.
Here the request body is JSON which matches the Content-Type
header.
HTTP/1.1 200 OK\r\n
Server: nginx/1.9.4\r\n
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2017 16:19:42 GMT\r\n
Content-Type: application/json\r\n
Content-Length: 141\r\n
\r\n
{
"id": "8fh924b42o",
"text": "this is a comment",
"createdAt": "2017-04-20T16:19:42.840Z",
"updatedAt": "2017-04-20T16:19:42.840Z"
}
Line 1 is the status line and contains 3 tokens:
HTTP/1.1.1
= HTTP version200
= HTTP status codeOK
= reason phase
The lines that follow are the response heaers.
/r/n
denotes the end of the response headers and start of the response body.