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Anatomy of a Web Response

By Chris Tankersley

Last month, we looked at HTTP requests and how a user agent asks for a specific resource. How do we provide an answer? Web servers send it back in an HTTP response. Let’s look at the parts of a response, how to indicate success or failure, and how to build the response body.

This article was originally published in the May 2020 issue of PHP Architect magazine. To read the complete article please subscribe or purchase the complete issue.

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