Question

What are the core components of a HTTP Request in RESTful?

Answer 1

A HTTP Request has five major parts −

• Verb − Indicate HTTP methods such as GET, POST, DELETE, PUT etc.

• URI − Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) to identify the resource on server.

• HTTP Version − Indicate HTTP version, for example HTTP v1.1 .

• Request Header − Contains metadata for the HTTP Request message as key-value pairs. For example, client ( or browser) type, format supported by client, format of message body, cache settings etc.

• Request Body − Message content or Resource representation.