Overview#

HTTP Entity Header is an HTTP Header Field describing the content of the HTTP Body of the message.

HTTP Entity Header are used in both, HTTP Requests and HTTP Responses.

HTTP Entity Header like Content-Length, Content-Language, Content-Encoding are HTTP Entity Header.

Even if HTTP Entity Header are neither HTTP Request Headers nor HTTP Response Header, they are often included with these terms.

More Information#

There might be more information for this subject on one of the following:

• Content-Encoding
• Content-Length
• Content-Type
• HTTP Header Field
• HTTP Request Header
• HTTP Response Header

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• [#1] - Entity header - based on information obtained 2017-07-12-