Posted on: October 6, 2012 at 12:00 AM
Java Servlet : Http Request Headers
In this tutorial, you will learn how to Http Request Headers works in java servlet.
Http Request Headers :
HTTP Request Header is a request line text that a HTTP client(eg. web
browser)sends to a server together with other request data.
HTTP client (e.g. a browser) sends a request via GET or POST method usually. It
can also send a number of headers.
Here we are mentioning some of them -
- Accept : It indicates MIME types browser can handle. It can sends different content to different clients.
- Accept-Charset : It represents the character set expected to the browser.
- Accept-Encoding : Indicates encodings (e.g., gzip or compress) browser can handle.
- Content-Length : for POST messages, how much data is attached
- Cookie : one of the most important headers
- Host : This header indicates host given in orignal URL
- User-Agent : type of browser, useful if servlet is returning browser-specific content.
Example : In this example we are displaying Host and User-Agent header by passing these to the getHeader() method.
HttpRequestHeaderExample.java
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;
public class HttpRequestHeaderExample extends HttpServlet {
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request,
HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {
String host = request.getHeader("Host");
String userAgent = request.getHeader("User-Agent");
response.setContentType("text/html");
PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
out.println("<html><body>");
out.println("<b>Host: </b>" + host + "<br>");
out.println("<b>User Agent: </b>" + userAgent);
out.println("</body></html>");
}
}
web.xml -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5"> <display-name>HttpRequestHeader</display-name> <servlet> <description></description> <display-name>HttpRequestHeaderExample</display-name> <servlet-name>HttpRequestHeaderExample</servlet-name> <servlet-class>HttpRequestHeaderExample</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>HttpRequestHeaderExample</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/HttpRequestHeaderExample</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app>
Output :
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