TRACE

HTTP method

Specification of the HTTP method TRACE

work in progress
HTTP Method TRACE has been specified in Section 4.3.8 of Document RFC 7231 by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) and the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).

Description of the TRACE method

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Example of HTTP method TRACE

Request header:
TRACE /data HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537
Accept-Language: de-DE,de;q=0.5
Connection: keep-alive
Response header:
Content-Type: message/http
Date: Mon, 31 July 2023 14:58:12 GMT
Server: Apache/2.4.7 (Ubuntu)
Cache-Control: no-cache

Response body (echoed request):
TRACE /data HTTP/1.1
Host: api.example.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko)Chrome/58.0.3029.110 Safari/537
Accept-Language: de-DE,de;q=0.5
Connection: keep-alive