Web Page Response

W
hen the site sends a web page back to the browser, it sends a response that looks something like this: 
HTTP/1.0 200 OK
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2001 19:35:13 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.14 (Unix) mod_python/2.7.1 Python/2.0 PHP/4.0.4
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html
 
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" 
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><head><title>Department of Computer Science</title></head>
...
The first line indicates that the server is sending a page back. The Content-type header gives the type of the document -- HTML. The headers are terminated by a blank line and followed by the document itself.