hi all.
i know that header() is used to send raw HTTP headers. 😃
now i looked up in RFC 2616 what the exact header field you can send. Here they are:
- general headers
Cache-Control ; Section 14.9
Connection ; Section 14.10
Date ; Section 14.18
Pragma ; Section 14.32
Trailer ; Section 14.40
Transfer-Encoding ; Section 14.41
Upgrade ; Section 14.42
Via ; Section 14.45
Warning ; Section 14.46
request headers
Accept ; Section 14.1
Accept-Charset ; Section 14.2
Accept-Encoding ; Section 14.3
Accept-Language ; Section 14.4
Authorization ; Section 14.8
Expect ; Section 14.20
From ; Section 14.22
Host ; Section 14.23
If-Match ; Section 14.24
If-Modified-Since ; Section 14.25
If-None-Match ; Section 14.26
If-Range ; Section 14.27
If-Unmodified-Since ; Section 14.28
Max-Forwards ; Section 14.31
Proxy-Authorization ; Section 14.34
Range ; Section 14.35
Referer ; Section 14.36
TE ; Section 14.39
User-Agent ; Section 14.43
response headers
Accept-Ranges ; Section 14.5
Age ; Section 14.6
ETag ; Section 14.19
Location ; Section 14.30
Proxy-Authenticate ; Section 14.33
Retry-After ; Section 14.37
Server ; Section 14.38
Vary ; Section 14.44
WWW-Authenticate ; Section 14.47
entity-header
Allow ; Section 14.7
Content-Encoding ; Section 14.11
Content-Language ; Section 14.12
Content-Length ; Section 14.13
Content-Location ; Section 14.14
Content-MD5 ; Section 14.15
Content-Range ; Section 14.16
Content-Type ; Section 14.17
Expires ; Section 14.21
Last-Modified ; Section 14.29
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Now my question is, can you send each of these headers? And where can I find a nice description of what every header field does if it is send. But please dont refer me to boring to death rfc's.
cheers and peace out.
