EXAMINING HTTP TRAFFIC - HTTP Programming Recipes for Java Bots - page 47

Figure 2.9: An HTTP Request
The HTTP headers for this GET request can be seen in Figure 2.9. As the topic progress-
es, many of these HTTP headers will be explained. For example, consider the User-Agent
header. This tells the web server what sort of browser is being used. For this example, Firefox
running on Microsoft Windows was used.