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Request

Meaning in web development, with examples

/rɪˈkwest/nounCore term

In web development, request means: A message a client sends to a server asking for something, such as a web page, an image or data, or asking it to save a change.

In Turkish: istek, talep

How it is used

Developers send, make, handle and block requests, and check them in the Network tab of the developer tools. Each HTTP request has a method, a URL, headers and sometimes a body.

Example sentences

  1. The page sends forty requests on load; can we combine some of them?

  2. Check the request in the Network tab and see what the server returned.

Common collocations

  • send a request
  • handle a request
  • GET request
  • request body
  • failed request
  • responseThe message a server sends back after a request, with a status code, headers and usually a body such as HTML or JSON.
  • HTTPHypertext Transfer Protocol: the set of rules that browsers and servers use to send requests and responses across the web.
  • HTTP methodThe word at the start of an HTTP request that says what the client wants to do, such as GET to read, POST to create or DELETE to remove.
  • headerA name and value pair sent with an HTTP request or response that carries extra information, such as Content-Type, Authorization or Cache-Control.

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