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What's in an HTTP request? by Rachel Evans. Every time your computer fetches a web page (or a graphic, or whatever) from a web server, it sends some information. If you're interested you can find out what information it sends. Probably the most important piece of information is your IP address. HTTP ( Hypertext Transfer Protocol ) is a request/response protocol, which means your computer sends a request for some file (e.g. "Get me the file 'home.html'"), and the web server sends back a response ("Here's the file", followed by the file itself). That request which your computer sends to the web server contains all sorts of (potentially) interesting information. We'll now examine the HTTP request your computer just sent to this web server, see what it contains, and find out what it tells me about you.
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