Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP11 Administrator's Guide

Response Header

The response header contains information about the server and information about the document that will follow. Common response headers are shown in Response Header.

Table B–3 Common response headers

Response header  

Description  

Server

The name and version of the web server. 

Date

The current date (in Greenwich Mean Time). 

Last-modified

The date when the document was last modified. 

Expires

The date when the document expires. 

Content-length

The length of the data that follows (in bytes). 

Content-type

The MIME type of the following data. 

WWW-authenticate

Used during authentication and includes information that tells the client software what is necessary for authentication (such as username and password).