JSP : Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines

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HTTP Response Syntax

Based on HTTP/1.1 protocol, after receiving and interpreting an HTTP request from a client, a server must responds with an HTTP response following the syntax bellow:

status-line
header-line
...
header-line

entity-body

Note that:

• Response must have one status-line.
• Response can have zero, one, or many header lines.
• Response can only have zero or one entity-body.
• There is a blank line between header lines and the entity body.
• Status line, head line, and blank line must be ended with CRLF ("/r/n") characters.
• Entity body is the actual data requested by the client request.
• Header lines can be in any order.  more...