These headers tell us which web server you were trying to
contact.
If that seems odd, bear in mind that many web sites can be "hosted"
on a single server, so when the request is received it needs to
know which web site you were attempting to access
What's in an HTTP request? - 0 views
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The request method is usually either "GET" or "POST". Basically if you fill in and submit a form on a web page it might generate a POST request (or it might be "GET"), whereas if you just click on a link, or activate one of your browser's "bookmarks" or "favourites", then the request method will always be "GET". Therefore, if it's "POST", we can tell that a form was definitely submitted. The contents of the form would appear here, and there would also be some "Content-" headers describing the data. Web browsers generate two kinds of "POST" data: either "multipart/form-data", which is used when uploading files to a web server, or the more common "application/x-www-form-urlencoded".
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The "referer" header tells us which document referred you to us - in essence, if you followed a link to get to this page, it is the URL of the page you came from to get here.
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