NotionCommotion Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I have the request headers for three posts. Can someone help me interpret them? Some like the Host, Referer, Unser-Agent, and Cookie are rather obvious, but not positive about the rest. Thanks Traditional form with post method Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5 Authorization Basic TWljaGFlbDpTdW5zaGluZQ== Connection keep-alive Host www.example.com Referer https://www.example.com/lib/testing/post.php User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 jQuery Ajax with post method Accept */* Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5 Content-Length 192 Content-Type application/x-www-form-urlencoded; charset=UTF-8 Cookie BACKSESSID=ldeklk651f1fia0olqaubfqrb6 Host test.sites.example.com Referer https://test.sites.example.com/administrator/index.php?cid=2&controller=detail&id=1125382824 User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest xhr request using fineuploaded plugin Accept text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Encoding gzip, deflate Accept-Language en-US,en;q=0.5 Cache-Control no-cache Content-Length 11480 Content-Type application/octet-stream Cookie BACKSESSID=ldeklk651f1fia0olqaubfqrb6 Host test.sites.example.com Referer https://test.sites.example.com/administrator/index.php?cid=2&controller=detail&id=1125382824 User-Agent Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0 X-File-Name Circuit%20Breaker.xlsx X-Mime-Type application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet X-Requested-With XMLHttpRequest Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/294727-understanding-post-request-headers/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
requinix Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Not to brush you off with a dismissive "RTFM!" but Header Field Definitions X-File-Name and X-Mime-Type are custom fields that the uploading code presumably understands and knows to look for. X-Requested-With is basically always "XMLHttpRequest", for AJAX. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/294727-understanding-post-request-headers/#findComment-1506180 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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