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Response

Meaning in web development, with examples

/rɪˈspɑːns/nounCore term

In web development, response means: The message a server sends back after a request, with a status code, headers and usually a body such as HTML or JSON.

In Turkish: yanıt, cevap

How it is used

Developers talk about response time, response headers and the response body, and say that an API 'returns' or 'sends back' a response. A slow response is one of the most common performance complaints.

Example sentences

  1. The response is empty, but the status code is 200.

  2. Average response time went up after the last deploy.

Common collocations

  • response time
  • response body
  • response headers
  • return a response
  • JSON response
  • requestA 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.
  • status codeA three-digit number in every HTTP response that shows the result, such as 200 for success, 404 for not found or 500 for a server error.
  • JSONJavaScript Object Notation: a simple text format for data, made of keys and values in curly braces, used by most web APIs.
  • 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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