There's one thing I haven't found in RFC 2616 ("Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1") and that's a "canonical" name for a request/response pair. Is there such thing?
4.1 Message Types:
4.1 Message Types HTTP messages consist of requests from client to server and responses from server to client. HTTP-message = Request | Response ; HTTP/1.1 messages
Taking this as a template, which word would you put in the following sentence?
A single complete HTTP ... consists of one HTTP Request and one HTTP Response HTTP-... = Request Response
roundtrip? cycle?
06/16/2022 Contributors. Every Deploy API call is performed as an HTTP request to the Deploy virtual machine which generates an associated response to the client. This request/response pair is considered an API transaction.
An HTTP response is made by a server to a client. The aim of the response is to provide the client with the resource it requested, or inform the client that the action it requested has been carried out; or else to inform the client that an error occurred in processing its request.
Informational responses ( 100 – 199 ) Successful responses ( 200 – 299 ) Redirection messages ( 300 – 399 ) Client error responses ( 400 – 499 )
A response header is an HTTP header that can be used in an HTTP response and that doesn't relate to the content of the message. Response headers, like Age , Location or Server are used to give a more detailed context of the response.
The spec calls them "exchanges" (or "request/response exchanges").
Per section 1.4, "Overall Operation":
In HTTP/1.0, most implementations used a new connection for each request/response exchange. In HTTP/1.1, a connection may be used for one or more request/response exchanges […]
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