How's the header and body of a http post request?

Question

Suppose I have first=John and last=Doe and the following URL: http://<myurl>/<my controller>

How would the HTTP message (headers and body) look like for a client receiving a HTTP Post?

With which encoding? Also, why are you asking? Do you have a specific problem? With specific code? — John Saunders, May 17 '13 at 21:08
@JohnSaunders UTF-8; I'm asking because I'm curious; I don't have a problem; No specific code — cybertextron, May 17 '13 at 21:10
possible duplicate of [How to mimic an HTML form submission in a POST request?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8417224/how-to-mimic-an-html-form-submission-in-a-post-request) — Michelle Tilley, May 17 '13 at 21:12
Easiest way I can think of to see this would be to build a simple form and execute it in the browser, while watching using [Fiddler](http://fiddler2.com/). You can view the raw request and response. — Joe Enos, May 17 '13 at 21:12

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 17 '13 at 21:14

Something like below. You can use firebug browser plug-in to inspect the raw HTTP communication. You can also read this article for more details.

POST /mycontroller HTTP/1.1  
Host: localhost  
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091102 Firefox/3.5.5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)  
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8  
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  
Connection: keep-alive
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded  
Content-Length: 20  

first=John&last=Doe

How's the header and body of a http post request?

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