The difference between HTTP header accept and Content-type

1.Accept belongs to the request header, and Content-type belongs to the entity header.

The HTTP header is divided into generic headers, request headers, response headers, and entity headers.

HTTP header structure for requester: Generic header | request Header | entity header

HTTP header structure of the responder: generic header | response Header | entity header

2.Accept represents the type of data that the sending side (client) wants to accept.

For example: Accept:text/xml;

Represents the data type that the client wants to accept as XML type

Content-type represents the data type of the entity data sent by the sending side (client | server).

For example: content-type:text/html;

The data format sent on behalf of the sending side is HTML.

3. Combination of the two

Accept:text/xml;

Content-type:text/html

This means that the data type that you want to accept is in XML format, and the data format for the data sent by this request is HTML.

Reference:

http://blog.csdn.net/muzizongheng/article/details/46795243 (the above content is transferred from this article)

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