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description: "[
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_headers
]"
date: "$Date$"
revision: "$Revision$"
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HTTP_HEADER_NAMES
feature -- Request header name
header_accept: STRING = "Accept"
-- Content-Types that are acceptable
--| Example: Accept: text/plain
header_accept_charset: STRING = "Accept-Charset"
-- Character sets that are acceptable
--| Example: Accept-Charset: utf-8
header_accept_encoding: STRING = "Accept-Encoding"
-- Acceptable encodings. See HTTP compression.
--| Example: Accept-Encoding: <compress | gzip | deflate | sdch | identity>
header_accept_language: STRING = "Accept-Language"
-- Acceptable languages for response
--| Example: Accept-Language: en-US
header_authorization: STRING = "Authorization"
-- Authentication credentials for HTTP authentication
--| Example: Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
header_cookie: STRING = "Cookie"
-- an HTTP cookie previously sent by the server with Set-Cookie (below)
--| Example: Cookie: $Version=1; Skin=new;
header_expect: STRING = "Expect"
-- Indicates that particular server behaviors are required by the client
--| Example: Expect: 100-continue
header_from: STRING = "From"
-- The email address of the user making the request
--| Example: From: user@example.com
header_host: STRING = "Host"
-- The domain name of the server (for virtual hosting), mandatory since HTTP/1.1
--| Example: Host: en.wikipedia.org
header_if_match: STRING = "If-Match"
-- Only perform the action if the client supplied entity matches the same entity on the server. This is mainly for methods like PUT to only update a resource if it has not been modified since the user last updated it.
--| Example: If-Match: "737060cd8c284d8af7ad3082f209582d"
header_if_modified_since: STRING = "If-Modified-Since"
-- Allows a 304 Not Modified to be returned if content is unchanged
--| Example: If-Modified-Since: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 19:43:31 GMT
header_if_none_match: STRING = "If-None-Match"
-- Allows a 304 Not Modified to be returned if content is unchanged, see HTTP ETag
--| Example: If-None-Match: "737060cd8c284d8af7ad3082f209582d"
header_if_range: STRING = "If-Range"
-- If the entity is unchanged, send me the part(s) that I am missing; otherwise, send me the entire new entity
--| Example: If-Range: "737060cd8c284d8af7ad3082f209582d"
header_if_unmodified_since: STRING = "If-Unmodified-Since"
-- Only send the response if the entity has not been modified since a specific time.
--| Example: If-Unmodified-Since: Sat, 29 Oct 1994 19:43:31 GMT
header_max_forwards: STRING = "Max-Forwards"
-- Limit the number of times the message can be forwarded through proxies or gateways.
--| Example: Max-Forwards: 10
header_proxy_authorization: STRING = "Proxy-Authorization"
-- Authorization credentials for connecting to a proxy.
--| Example: Proxy-Authorization: Basic QWxhZGRpbjpvcGVuIHNlc2FtZQ==
header_range: STRING = "Range"
-- Request only part of an entity. Bytes are numbered from 0.
--| Example: Range: bytes=500-999
header_referer: STRING = "Referer[sic]"
-- This is the address of the previous web page from which a link to the currently requested page was followed. (The word “referrer” is misspelled in the RFC as well as in most implementations.)
--| Example: Referer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
header_te: STRING = "TE"
-- The transfer encodings the user agent is willing to accept: the same values as for the response header Transfer-Encoding can be used, plus the "trailers" value (related to the "chunked" transfer method) to notify the server it accepts to receive additional headers (the trailers) after the last, zero-sized, chunk.
--| Example: TE: trailers, deflate
header_upgrade: STRING = "Upgrade"
-- Ask the server to upgrade to another protocol.
--| Example: Upgrade: HTTP/2.0, SHTTP/1.3, IRC/6.9, RTA/x11
header_user_agent: STRING = "User-Agent"
-- The user agent string of the user agent
--| Example: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; MSIE 9.0; Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; Trident/5.0)
feature -- Response header name
header_accept_ranges: STRING = "Accept-Ranges"
-- "Accept-Ranges" What partial content range types this server supports
--| Example: Accept-Ranges: bytes
header_age: STRING = "Age"
-- The age the object has been in a proxy cache in seconds
--| Example: Age: 12
header_allow: STRING = "Allow"
-- Valid actions for a specified resource. To be used for a 405 Method not allowed
--| Example: Allow: GET, HEAD
header_content_encoding: STRING = "Content-Encoding"
-- The type of encoding used on the data. See HTTP compression.
--| Example: Content-Encoding: gzip
header_content_language: STRING = "Content-Language"
-- The language the content is in
--| Example: Content-Language: da
header_content_location: STRING = "Content-Location"
-- An alternate location for the returned data
--| Example: Content-Location: /index.htm
header_content_disposition: STRING = "Content-Disposition"
-- An opportunity to raise a "File Download" dialogue box for a known MIME type
--| Example: Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=fname.ext
header_content_range: STRING = "Content-Range"
-- Where in a full body message this partial message belongs
--| Example: Content-Range: bytes 21010-47021/47022
header_etag: STRING = "ETag"
-- An identifier for a specific version of a resource, often a message digest
--| Example: ETag: "737060cd8c284d8af7ad3082f209582d"
header_expires: STRING = "Expires"
-- Gives the date/time after which the response is considered stale
--| Example: Expires: Thu, 01 Dec 1994 16:00:00 GMT
header_last_modified: STRING = "Last-Modified"
-- The last modified date for the requested object, in RFC 2822 format
--| Example: Last-Modified: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 12:45:26 GMT
header_link: STRING = "Link"
-- Used to express a typed relationship with another resource, where the relation type is defined by RFC 5988
--| Example: Link: </feed>; rel="alternate"
header_location: STRING = "Location"
-- Used in redirection, or when a new resource has been created.
--| Example: Location: http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People.html
header_p3p: STRING = "P3P"
-- This header is supposed to set P3P policy, in the form of P3P:CP="your_compact_policy". However, P3P did not take off,[5] most browsers have never fully implemented it, a lot of websites set this header with fake policy text, that was enough to fool browsers the existence of P3P policy and grant permissions for third party cookies.
--| Example: P3P: CP="This is not a P3P policy! See http://www.google.com/support/accounts/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=151657 for more info."
header_proxy_authenticate: STRING = "Proxy-Authenticate"
-- Request authentication to access the proxy.
--| Example: Proxy-Authenticate: Basic
header_refresh: STRING = "Refresh"
-- Used in redirection, or when a new resource has been created. This refresh redirects after 5 seconds. This is a proprietary, non-standard header extension introduced by Netscape and supported by most web browsers.
--| Example: Refresh: 5; url=http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/People.html
header_retry_after: STRING = "Retry-After"
-- If an entity is temporarily unavailable, this instructs the client to try again after a specified period of time.
--| Example: Retry-After: 120
header_server: STRING = "Server"
-- A name for the server
--| Example: Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix) (Red-Hat/Linux)
header_set_cookie: STRING = "Set-Cookie"
-- an HTTP cookie
--| Example: Set-Cookie: UserID=JohnDoe; Max-Age=3600; Version=1
header_strict_transport_security: STRING = "Strict-Transport-Security"
-- A HSTS Policy informing the HTTP client how long to cache the HTTPS only policy and whether this applies to subdomains.
--| Example: Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=16070400; includeSubDomains
header_trailer: STRING = "Trailer"
-- The Trailer general field value indicates that the given set of header fields is present in the trailer of a message encoded with chunked transfer-coding.
--| Example: Trailer: Max-Forwards
header_transfer_encoding: STRING = "Transfer-Encoding"
-- The form of encoding used to safely transfer the entity to the user. Currently defined methods are: chunked, compress, deflate, gzip, identity.
--| Example: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
header_vary: STRING = "Vary"
-- Tells downstream proxies how to match future request headers to decide whether the cached response
-- can be used rather than requesting a fresh one from the origin server.
--| Example: Vary: *
header_www_authenticate: STRING = "WWW-Authenticate"
-- Indicates the authentication scheme that should be used to access the requested entity.
--| Example: WWW-Authenticate: Basic
feature -- Cross-Origin Resource Sharing
header_access_control_allow_origin: STRING = "Access-Control-Allow-Origin"
-- Indicates whether a resource can be shared based by returning
-- the value of the Origin request header in the response.
--| Example: Access-Control-Allow-Origin: http://example.org
header_access_control_allow_credentials: STRING = "Access-Control-Allow-Credentials"
-- Indicates whether or not the response to the request can be exposed when the credentials flag is true.
-- When used as part of a response to a preflight request, this indicates whether or not the actual request can be made using credentials.
-- Note that simple GET requests are not preflighted, and so if a request is made for a resource with credentials,
-- if this header is not returned with the resource, the response is ignored by the browser and not returned to web content.
--| Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true | false
header_access_control_allow_methods: STRING = "Access-Control-Allow-Methods"
-- Indicates, as part of the response to a preflight request,
-- which methods can be used during the actual request.
--| Access-Control-Allow-Methods: <method>[, <method>]*
--| Example: Access-Control-Allow-Methods: PUT, DELETE
header_access_control_allow_headers: STRING = "Access-Control-Allow-Headers"
-- Indicates, as part of the response to a preflight request,
-- which header field names can be used during the actual request.
--| Access-Control-Allow-Headers: <field-name>[, <field-name>]*
--| Example: Access-Control-Allow-Headers: Authorization
feature -- Request or Response header name
header_cache_control: STRING = "Cache-Control"
-- Request: Used to specify directives that MUST be obeyed by all caching mechanisms along the request/response chain
-- Response: Tells all caching mechanisms from server to client whether they may cache this object. It is measured in seconds
--| Request example: Cache-Control: no-cache
--| Response example: Cache-Control: max-age=3600
header_connection: STRING = "Connection"
-- Request: What type of connection the user-agent would prefer
-- Response: Options that are desired for the connection[4]
--| Example: Connection: close
header_content_length: STRING = "Content-Length"
-- Request: The length of the request body in octets (8-bit bytes)
-- Response: The length of the response body in octets (8-bit bytes)
--| Example: Content-Length: 348
header_content_md5: STRING = "Content-MD5"
-- Request: A Base64-encoded binary MD5 sum of the content of the request body
-- Response: A Base64-encoded binary MD5 sum of the content of the response
--| Example: Content-MD5: Q2hlY2sgSW50ZWdyaXR5IQ==
header_content_type: STRING = "Content-Type"
-- Request: The mime type of the body of the request (used with POST and PUT requests)
-- Response : The mime type of this content
--| Request example: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
--| Response example: Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
header_date: STRING = "Date"
-- The date and time that the message was sent
--| Example: Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 08:12:31 GMT
header_pragma: STRING = "Pragma"
-- Implementation-specific headers that may have various effects anywhere along the request-response chain.
--| Example: Pragma: no-cache
header_status: STRING = "Status"
-- CGI program can use this to return the HTTP status code to the client.
header_via: STRING = "Via"
-- Request: Informs the server of proxies through which the request was sent.
-- Response: Informs the client of proxies through which the response was sent.
--| Example: Via: 1.0 fred, 1.1 nowhere.com (Apache/1.1)
header_warning: STRING = "Warning"
-- A general warning about possible problems with the entity body.
--| Example: Warning: 199 Miscellaneous warning
feature -- MIME related
header_content_transfer_encoding: STRING = "Content-Transfer-Encoding"
note
copyright: "2011-2014, Jocelyn Fiat, Eiffel Software and others"
license: "Eiffel Forum License v2 (see http://www.eiffel.com/licensing/forum.txt)"
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