Mime Types

From : http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/06/08/restful.html

"One of the benefits of using HTTP correctly is that we can dispatch on a whole range of things. To make the discussion more concrete, let's look at an example HTTP request:

GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: 127.0.0.1:8080
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (...) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4
Accept: text/xml, application/xml, application/xhtml+xml, text/html;q=0.9,
      text/plain;q=0.8, image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive 

There are three items of interest here. First, the HTTP request method is GET. Second, the URI is carried in two locations. The path and query parameters are on the first line of the request. The remainder of the URI, the domain name of the server, is carried in the Host header. Third, the media type is carried in the Accept header because this is a GET request. For other POST or PUT requests, the Content-Type header in the request carries the media type of the entity body."