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Handling the 

Client Request: 

Chapter

HTTP Request 

Headers

Topics in This Chapter

  Reading HTTP request headers from servlets

  Building a table of all the request headers

  The purpose of each of the HTTP 1.1 request headers

  Reducing download times by compressing pages

  Restricting access with password protected servlets

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